Chile's Atacama Desert is home to some of the best Earth-based observatories, though an energy company is throwing a wrench ...

Dust from open cast mining suffocates surrounding forests and inhibits trees' ability to capture carbon from the atmosphere ...

Starlink is the name of a satellite network developed by the ... likened the impact of megaconstellations on astronomy to light pollution. The report said the sky may brighten by a factor of ...

Accessible to anyone the world over, witnessing the majesty of the solar system, including the Milky Way, and its billions of ...

A recent push by the NASA Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite to shine a light into that darkness has been illuminating, to say the least.

Your skies may be hazy from local traffic, or industry such as for example coal burning power plants, or the pollution may be coming in from somewhere else farther away. Satellite images help identify ...

As the long summer days of August turn into nights, a few dozen volunteers gather in the small community of Witless Bay, a ...

Dense fog and severe cold conditions have gripped Delhi and parts of North India, wreaking havoc. Visibility in the ...

A series of life-threatening fires, the largest of which is in the Pacific Palisades, are destroying homes as they race ...

Long-awaited plastics treaty flops, for now Despite around-the-clock efforts from delegates, negotiators and numerous ...