Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. The peak of the annual Perseid meteor shower is coming soon. As many as ...

A bright fireball illuminated a dark night sky across several western states over the weekend, videos show. More than 30 ...

On a rare moonless, fogless and even windless September night in Point Reyes Station near the Marin County coast, eight ...

As someone that has always lived in the UK countryside, I am no stranger to the glory of a dark star-filled sky. Sadly, 60% ...

This is the most detailed map of of the distribution of dark matter in the Universe ... because we have no theory of physics to guide us. It makes me very nervous and fearful, because we are ...

In the U.S., Idaho, Alaska and Michigan are examples of places where the Northern Lights could be observed, while Iceland and ...

It's being described as the most detailed ever map of the influence of dark matter through cosmic history ... long-wavelength radiation that comes to us from the very edge of the observable ...

It's a deceptively simple question that has puzzled astronomers since the 1960s. Now, thanks to data from NASA's New Horizons probe, they have arrived at the best-yet estimate of how dark — or rather, ...

The night sky ... map to 20,000 square degrees—nearly half the sky—this new version adds an infrared light filter. “The addition of near-infrared wavelength data to the Legacy Survey will ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- A sanctuary for stargazing in Eastern Oregon is the largest in the world -- and is set to get even ...

The results are in line with theory — but the key to an accurate measurement was understanding how dusty the galaxy is.

He works in the Lauwersnest activity centre, where a map with the planets ... during nightly excursions. The US organisation awards the designation of “dark sky park.” There are about 70 ...