A space reporter traveled to Upper Michigan, where she rediscovered a sense of cosmic wonder. The view of the stars from a dark sky preserve in southern Michigan.Credit...Emily Elconin for The New ...

December means the winter solstice is coming, it arrives on Dec. 21, and we are in for a couple of very cold and snowy months in Wyoming. Even though it’s cold, this month there are 15 objects in the ...

God is our unwavering guide through incomprehensible darkness. When I stepped from my tent into total darkness, the night was a void that felt expansive and oppressive all at once. Toeing my way ...

Few things in the universe are as perplexing as dark matter — the invisible and exotic “stuff” that is thought to make up most of the matter in galaxies. The theory goes like this: To reconcile our ...

Born as a battleship and rebuilt into a carrier, Kaga became one of Japan’s most powerful weapons. She spearheaded the attack on Pearl Harbor and carried one fifth of the aircraft that struck Oahu.

Industrialization in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula has some residents pushing for protection of the region’s celestial splendor. The night sky above Eagle Harbor, a village in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula ...

The buzz is heating up around Japanese pitching sensation Tatsuya Imai making the jump to MLB, and we can’t help but imagine him in a Diamondbacks uniform. We break down Imai’s impressive 2025 stats ...

Four F-35B Lightning II fighter jets conducted flight operations on the JS Kaga, the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force’s largest multirole cruiser. Despite the cruiser designation, the JS Kaga can ...

Japan’s two largest carriers have not seen any significant decline in demand on Mainland China operations, days after Beijing “solemnly reminded” its citizens not to travel to Japan amid a deepening ...

A detention center known as Alligator Alcatraz is causing light pollution in Florida's Big Cypress National Preserve. Big Cypress is one of the first designated "dark skies" locations east of Colorado ...

The aurora borealis danced over the Mendenhall Glacier in Juneau on Nov. 12, 2025. Hundreds of Juneauites flocked to dark areas of town to catch particularly strong performances from the northern ...

The 1999 Leonid meteors as seen from the Leonid Multi-Instrument Aircraft Campaign NASA / Ames Research Center / ISAS / Shinsuke Abe and Hajime Yano Stargazers, rejoice. The annual Leonid meteor ...