The Sky at Night

David Copperfield announced on TODAY that he is working on a trick in which he makes the moon disappear.

The world has never been brighter. The move to more efficient LED lights has exacerbated the light pollution problem thanks to the lower energy costs associated with...

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A new study that analyzes data from more than 50,000 amateur stargazers finds that artificial lighting is making the night sky about 10% brighter each year.

The Grammy nominee didn't hold back after a fan questioned whether his songs about same-sex love were a reflection of his true self.

Scientists made space exploration history on 12 November 2014 when, for the first time, a space probe landed on a comet. The speeding target was Churyumov-Gerasimenko—a dirty cosmic snowball slightly bigger than Mount Fuji. The probe was the Philae lander—part of the European Space Agency's Rosetta program. "The launch occurred approximately 500 million kilometers from […]

Maggie Aderin-Pocock tells us about the power of the James Webb Space Telescope and how she inspires disadvantaged students to enter STEM.

The annual Perseids meteor shower is expected to continue through September. Astronomers say it's one of the brightest and most visible meteor showers of the year.

Cutting-edge AI finds a 600-ft-wide space rock, 2022 SF289, nearing Earth at 140,000 miles. HelioLinc3D algorithm aids Rubin Observatory's asteroid surveillance.

All shrine locations we've found so far, including regional shrine maps for Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Every year, the night sky grows brighter, and the stars look...

Dark sky proponents mull the rights of nature to battle light pollution. Here's how it would work

Seeing the stars or the moon doesn't have to be complicated; even a beginner can do it with the right scope.

It's going to be one of the biggest, brightest moons we've seen in recent years.

For most of human history, the stars blazed in an otherwise dark night sky. But starting around the Industrial Revolution, as artificial light increasingly lit cities and towns at night, the stars began to disappear.

The Large Hadron Collider is mainly a machine for smashing protons into each other.  But what's a proton? First and foremost, it's a mess.  A total mess.   As ugly a…

It's not the first time that liberal capitalism has retreated—and predatory capitalists have filled the void.

Drones are being spotted all over the U.S. But are those flashing lights in the sky really airplanes

A major lunar standstill is about to occur. The phenomenon happens every 18.6 years when the moon rises and sets at its most extreme points on the horizon, while also climbing to its highest and lowest point in the sky.

Astronomers have known about the planet's apparent retrograde motion for centuries. Is there any truth to the astrological phenomenon?