The nonprofit behind it, which fights to keep artificial light from ruining the night, believes darkness can actually help ...

Supporters say making public agencies dim outdoor lights will prevent disturbing wildlife and preserve Maine's dark night ...

We spoke to the creators of the DarkSky One and discovered it's not about the car, but how it helps everyone else see better ...

Artificial light, while beneficial to humans, has disrupted the natural day-night cycle and created light pollution, negatively affecting wildlife. Humans also suffer from light pollution, ...

Sacramento is one of California’s most light polluted cities. The Bortle scale is a nine-level numeric scale measuring the night sky's brightness of specific locations with one being perfect ...

A recent news release from Lewis County highlighting a new "light pollution" policy drew hundreds of negative responses on ...

The darkest places in the U.S. provide the best stargazing opportunities. From coast to coast, here's where to go for ...

PALO ALTO, Calif. (KGO) -- The city of Palo Alto is considering new rules to cut out light pollution and they could go so far as a 10 p.m. curfew on all outdoor lights. Reportedly - 80% of Americans ...

When a 1994 earthquake knocked out power across Los Angeles, thousands of anxious residents called local emergency services to report a strange, silvery cloud stretching across the darkened sky. What ...

You may have seen reports late last month about a new study showing how too much light at night is affecting birds — the latest sign of a problem that has implications for us, too. The study’s ...

For most of human history, darkness was a constant. The rhythms of nature, wildlife behavior, and even human sleep evolved under predictable cycles of day and night. In the past century, however, ...