Long before city lights drowned out the stars, the night sky was a breathtaking sight, and during the age of […] ...

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.

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

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

New simulations suggest dark matter could explain the mysterious gamma-ray glow at the Milky Way’s center. The findings show that the galaxy’s early mergers may have shaped dark matter in a way that ...

Comet Lemmon will be visible during October 2025 during the Orionid and Taurid meteor showers, creating a month of potential comets, "shooting stars" and fireballs. (2024's Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks is ...