“Dark Skies” was one of the first sci-fi movies I ever watched. I was probably a little too young at the time (it felt like pure nightmare fuel back then), but I was completely hooked nonetheles ...

When I got home, there was a copy of Anna Levin’s new book aptly titled Dark Skies sitting in my mailbox. I like short books packed with information, and the timing couldn’t have been better.

Not that satellites are the only concern. Light pollution from terrestrial sources has been a gradually growing menace to dark skies since the Industrial Revolution, as electrical lighting ...

Time under dark skies is precious, and for a lot of us, getting out to those sites can be tough. When we do, often we end up observing alone, or with a few intrepid others at an astronomy club ...

Oregon has gained a reputation as something of a dark sky paradise. While Oregonians have long known about the particularly dark skies in some of the more rural parts of the state — which allow ...

Up to 18 meteors per hour will be visible during the peak. The best viewing time is between midnight and dawn, under clear, dark skies. No binoculars or equipment are needed; the naked eye is ...

The telescope, apart from its size, benefits from the exceptionally dark sky above Mount Paranal, which is the least light-polluted among all major astronomical locations in the western world.