The city of Palo Alto is considering new rules to cut out light pollution and they could go so far as a 10 p.m. curfew on all ...

Check the schedule to time your night visit to one of the Dark Sky events, which are held the night before a New Moon.

Astrophysicists have teased a hellish potential future in which life on Earth is extinguished by deadly radiation from the ...

Have you ever seen the Milky Way? What about the Northern Lights? A growing number of people have never seen these features because the skies over them are simply not dark enough. A 2016 study found ...

Astronomers have uncovered a spiral galaxy nearly a billion light-years away that hosts a supermassive black hole launching ...

That is the Milky Way, our home galaxy, and you can see it best on dark, clear nights in the summer. It contains hundreds of billions of stars, including the sun that we orbit. It also has dust ...

But she's one of the lucky ones as America's dark skies ... and see the Milky Way or stars. "We just fell in love with this place, like instantly," Woosely said. "The quiet, the mountains, the ...

Astronomers have at last identified what’s believed to be the edge of the Milky Way galaxy ... and when you get out beyond the dark halo of a galaxy like ours, the velocities of small galaxies ...

In the ongoing quest to understand dark matter, researchers are now wondering if a strange phenomenon occurring at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy could be from a different form of dark matter. Dark ...

And we realized that dark energy energy associated with empty ... radio pulses coming from within our Milky Way galaxy that would pulse every two hours, like a cosmic heartbeat.