COPPER HARBOR, MI – This dark sky festival showcases the spectacular stargazing of Michigan’s northernmost peninsula.

Eventually, the dark umbra shadow appeared and slowly enveloped the moon, until we saw the distinctive color at totality when the moon is completely in the Earth’s umbra. Clouds really enhanced and ...

Gravitational lensing often evokes images of a cosmic funhouse mirror: duplicated galaxies, dramatic arcs and distorted shapes. But the web-like, large-scale structure throughout the universe also ...

Amateur astronomers who follow night sky happenings knew the first thing they needed to do to see the northern lights display when they heard one may be happening. They needed to head for a dark sky ...

Late on Thursday night and into the early hours of Friday, the full moon turned a beautiful reddish color as it drifted ...

The first of two total lunar eclipses in 2025 will be best seen from North America overnight on March 13-14, 2025. Europe will get a brief view at moonset, but it’s not expected to be a significant — ...

A lunar eclipse happens when the Earth moves directly between the sun and the moon, casting a shadow across the lunar surface ...

Getty Images A seven-luminaries-deep parade of planets ... As with all awe-inspiring cosmic phenomena, the closer you get to dark sky communities and the farther away you get from light pollution ...

But the full lunar eclipse was visible to people in North and South America and spectacular pictures were published ... (AP Photo/Jenny Kane) The moon turned dark as it moved into Earth's shadow ...

F or the first time since 2022, skygazers Thursday-into-Friday were treated with a total lunar eclipse, which turned the moon ...

If you've missed the Northern Lights thus far there's another chance to see them tonight, and the Met Office knows the best ...

Mars is high in the sky as it gets dark and has faded in brightness ... Pluto is way out there in the solar system and requires taking images through a telescope spaced days apart to hunt it ...