The best time to view the Lyrids is when Lyra, the Northern Hemisphere constellation from which the meteors appear to radiate ...

Active since last week, the shower is formed from a comet’s debris and is forecast to produce the most fireballs overnight.

(When a massive power outage struck southern California in the 1990s, Los Angeles residents reportedly called 911 to express alarm about strange clouds hovering overhead; they were seeing the ...

The night sky and the Milky Way above Kitt Peak Observatory. Tucson is on the right, and Phoenix is on the left. The WIYN 0.9 meter telescope is close in the foreground.

The telescope, apart from its size, benefits from the exceptionally dark sky above Mount Paranal, which is the least light-polluted among all major astronomical locations in the western world.

Oregon has gained a reputation as something of a dark sky paradise. While Oregonians have long known about the particularly dark skies in some of the more rural parts of the state — which allow ...