Look to the east before sunrise on June 22 to catch the delicate form of the crescent moon shining with Venus alongside the ...

Aotearoa New Zealand officially celebrates Matariki for the fourth time, marked by the reappearance in the night sky of the ...

Aotearoa New Zealand officially celebrates Matariki for the fourth time this week, but more needs to be done to promote and ...

The connection between Matariki and Dark Sky Reserves is natural and profound. For Māori, the stars are tūpuna (ancestors), ...

These dark sky sanctuaries, reserves, parks, and trails invite you to immerse yourself in the wonders of our night skies.

A new book shows that the Northern Dene people of Alaska and Canada have known far more about the stars than an earlier ...

The half-lit lunar disk will rise alongside the ringed giant Saturn and dimmer Neptune in the early morning hours of June 19, ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has just released some of its first images. Its powerful new telescope will be able to quickly ...

The debut images from a powerful telescope at Chile's Vera Rubin Observatory show distant galaxies and star-forming regions ...