From her home in Baker, Nevada, Elizabeth Woosley can see Andromeda, the nearest galaxy to the Milky Way, with her naked eye. But she's one of the lucky ones as America's dark skies are rapidly ...

The technicolor Florida sunset had faded into darkness, and my extended family, assembled from two continents and three countries, gathered on the beach at Longboat Key to look at the stars. We were ...

Bisbee sits in a remote part of Arizona, but the skies weren't as dark as they could be until the city stepped in. In November, Bisbee was designated a "dark sky place," the 22nd such location in ...

More than 99% of Americans live under skies polluted by light. This pervasive artificial glow obscures stars and the constellations they form. It hides our galaxy, the Milky Way, from four in every ...

A pizza restaurant, smoke shop and a vintage shop on Main Street in Cambria. The Dark Skies Initiative committee wants to certify Cambria as an official dark-sky community. Cambria has been working ...

Glen Hvenegaard received support for this project from the University of Alberta’s Augustana Faculty Research Committee through the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. University of ...