From Neolithic standing stone sites to remote mountains and castle-backed valleys, the UK’s dark sky reserves and discovery sites offer a rich tapestry of backdrops for superb stargazing on clear ...

On May 10, 2024, something unusual happened. Babak Tafreshi packed up his camera equipment and drove just an hour north of his home in Massachusetts to photograph the northern lights. For the first ...

As I stumbled over rocks through pitch darkness, following a guy I had just met online, I began to question my life choices. It was the middle of the night, and I was wandering through a remote desert ...

I remember the first time I saw a truly dark sky. My parents had sent 12-year-old me to a summer camp in the mountains of central Virginia. I’d grown up in the Washington, D.C., suburbs, where houses ...

On a cold winter night in a rural area, I looked through a scope to see the rings of Saturn for the first time. Connecting grade school science book descriptions with a real-life view amazed me.

Professor Monks explained how this effect occurs to The Sky at Night presenter Pete Lawrence during their filming at Space Park Leicester. When expelled, the fuel spirals in a similar way to a ...