Utah is serious about the stars.

Dark sky travel is trending fast, with more people booking trips built around stargazing, auroras and clear night skies.

Growing evidence suggests that excessive outdoor lighting at night may be harming wildlife. For generations, rural ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – Light pollution is the presence of unwanted, inappropriate, or excessive artificial lighting. Light pollution can have several consequences such as washing out starlight in the ...

Petoskey is making headlines for being one of the first cities in the United States to pass a dark sky ordinance.

For most of human history, darkness was a constant. The rhythms of nature, wildlife behavior, and even human sleep evolved under predictable cycles of day and night. In the past century, however, ...

BIG CYPRESS NATIONAL PRESERVE, Fla. (WINK)—When the sun goes down in the Everglades, a whole different world lights up, but even in a place this remote, new threats are starting to show up in the sky.

Eugene Mayor Kaarin Knudson has declared April as “Dark Sky Month.” But local activists are calling on the city to do more to reduce light pollution. The dark sky movement aims to reduce the ambient ...

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. Even ...