For millennia, humans have peered into the night sky in an attempt to understand—or maybe just marvel at—the cosmos. Although there’s a simple beauty ... no shortage of background ...

Each time we gaze up at the night sky, we take for granted ... We've also since discovered the cosmic background radiation, which does illuminate the sky uniformly, and in a few different ...

At the very darkest sites on Earth, far removed from humanity’s wasted sky-directed light, that background can be as dim as 22 mag/arcsec 2. I’d love to have a moonless night with my ...

one sky gazer has handed out tips for spotting the black hole in the night sky. Space expert Erin Ross posted some simple instructions to Twitter for anyone wanting to catch a glimpse. She ...

of stars in our night sky. And we've all heard of the 19th century poem penned in 1806 by the British poet, Jane Taylor, with the simple title of "The Star,": Twinkle, twinkle, little star ...