Dark skies” refers to areas minimally impacted by artificial light, and such skies are becoming harder to find as light pollution intensifies worldwide, dimming the stars and negatively impacting ...

Students discovered an ultra-ancient star with almost no heavy elements, making it one of the most pristine ever found.

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) has completed its originally planned five-year mission and mapped more than ...

Public interest in International Dark Sky Week (April 13-20) has grown since its founding in 2003 by Virginia high school ...

A group of undergraduate students stumbled into a cosmic time capsule—one of the oldest stars ever discovered—while combing through massive astronomy datasets. What began as a class project quickly ...

Jackson Township residents pack hearing to oppose proposed strip mine in Cambria County Dozens of residents packed a zoning ...

Despite hurtling through space at incredible speeds, we don't feel the Earth's motion because it's constant and shared. Like ...

A local hotel was nearly destroyed, its roof ripped away, leaving beds and furniture exposed to the open sky. Elsewhere in ...

Sophia Mills, program coordinator at Penn State’s R-VOICE Center, thanks that crowd that came out for Take Back the Night hosted by Lambda Theta Alpha. Former Fleetwood Mac guitarist Lindsey ...

April in Michigan brings lantern walks, puppet parades, dark sky programs, maple festivals, film events, and spring weekends ...

Although the Greenwave football program has had a small number of former football players don helmets and pads for the Nevada ...

A class of undergraduate students at University of Chicago has used data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) to discover one of the oldest stars in the universe, a star that formed in a companion ...