The first dazzling images have been released from the National Science Foundation and Department of Energy’s Vera C. Rubin ...

These mystifying clouds are referred to as night-shining or noctilucent clouds ... no more than 16 degrees below the horizon. The background sky must be adequately dark enough for the clouds ...

This month's night sky is filled with close-range meteors, swirling nebulas, and prime stargazing conditions. Here’s when you ...

an ethereal spectacle sometimes appears in the sky—clouds that shimmer with a ghostly blue-white light. These mysterious night-shining clouds, or noctilucent clouds, seem almost otherworldly ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. If you're in the northern hemisphere and it's been a ...

IN NATURE, June 28 (p. 196), Mr. Backhouse notes the appearance of illuminated clouds to northward at night. Similar clouds are seen from here on almost every clear night near the summer solstice.

With a little luck, Brits might be able to spot spectacular noctilucent clouds in the evening sky. The rare night sky phenomenon is seasonal and becomes visible in the northern hemisphere from ...

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 ...

A total lunar eclipse will flush the moon red Thursday night into Friday morning across the country including Boston, where viewers will have to hope for a break in the clouds to see the spectacle.