Residents of several suburban communities reported seeing several objects streaking across the night sky, leaving a trail of ...

Astronomers are sounding alarm bells as the world's most precious sky-observing location faces a risk of being blinded by ...

European Southern Observatory Director General Xavier Barcons told Space.com that astronomers expect the project to brighten ...

It’s not just about cities. Darkness is dwindling all around the planet, and with satellites up in the sky, we're actually taking light pollution around the Earth. Not even a terrestrial issue ...

Astronomers have been battling threats to their clear skies on all fronts lately. One of the most notable battles, which we ...

A study led by researchers from the University of Virginia has used satellite measurements to show the long-term persistence ...

there are laws to protect the dark sky and astronomy research that reduce light pollution from the ground. However, researchers at Lowell Observatory said the thousands of satellites launched into ...

Ever since the winter solstice on Dec. 21, daylight in Evanston has been slowly but steadily increasing, and on Jan. 28, the ...

In 2022, a team of researchers found that light pollution over Paranal was substantially less than that over 27 other major observatories. That research found that two-thirds of all large ...