The beach at Lake Lure is one of the few mountain beaches you’ll find, offering sandy shores and swimming in the shadow of Rumbling Bald Mountain. What gives Lake Lure its Hallmark movie quality is ...

Discover the best dark sky preserves for autumn stargazing, from Utah’s canyons to Pennsylvania’s forests, perfect for meteor showers and cosmic wonder.

A recent survey uncovered several mysterious objects in the night sky, photographed before the first satellite ever made it ...

Mercury currently appears as a bright "evening star" in the southwestern sky at sunset. Mercury will reach its greatest ...

The reason why we don’t see utter blackness is once again because of that visual noise, which come from signals from our ...

A new study suggests the Milky Way’s gamma-ray glow could be a dark matter signal shaped by ancient galactic mergers.

Such an exponential expansion may seem minor, but it is equivalent to a grape in the palm of your hand swelling to become ...

Siddharth Patel, a 12-year-old who lives in London, Ontario (west of Toronto), spotted two possible asteroids in September as ...

So much happened in the earliest moments of the universe. Elementary particles appeared, the first nuclei of hydrogen and ...

These ten West Coast zones keep the glow low, the horizons wide, and the vibes star-drunk. General playbook: chase new ...

Theorists have found that a “warm” version of cosmic inflation is consistent with known physics, linking it to the hunt for ...

Astrophysicists at the University of Chicago have developed physics-based models suggesting that dark energy could be ...