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To get certified by the Starlight Foundation, Villa de Leyva, Colombia, plans to change its streetlights so they only point downward and use light bulbs with warmer colored temperatures.
Science
This Colombian town is dimming its lights to attract more tourists to view the night sky
People carrying lanterns watch the sky at night during the annual Perseid meteor shower in El Escorial, outside Madrid, Aug. 13, 2015.
Science & Technology
This Senegalese astronomer is helping NASA measure asteroids in space
Curiosity Rover selfie
Science & Technology
‘The Sirens of Mars’: A scientist’s personal journey and the rich history of Mars exploration
An illustration of a protoplanet crashing into Jupiter
Science
Protoplanet smackdown may explain Jupiter’s core makeup
The Tiangong-1 space station passes over the moon in this photo taken in September 2013. The station is scheduled to make a crash landing in Europe within the next few weeks.
Technology
Chinese space station likely to land in Europe in a few weeks
The moon is red-orange as it hangs in the sky next to the left of a high-rise building.
Science
Rare ‘super blood blue moon’ visible on Jan. 31
Technology
Blue salt crystals on meteorites stoke conversation about extraterrestrial life
interstellar visitor
Science
In a first, scientists spotted an ‘interstellar visitor’ in our solar system
neutron star collision
Technology
In a long-ago neutron star collision, scientists find a cosmic goldmine
Brother Guy Consolmagno is a Jesuit priest and the director of the Vatican Observatory.
Belief
For this Vatican astronomer, the solar eclipse is divine coincidence
Lindsay Smith Zrull carefully places a glass plate photograph of the sky on a lightbox in the Plate Stacks room at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
Arts
A team of women is unearthing the forgotten legacy of Harvard’s women ‘computers’
Gaia - Milky Way
Science
Mapping the Milky Way as never before
Solar flare, May 5
Science
Biggest solar flare of the year showers the Earth
This natural color view of Ganymede was taken on June 26, 1996, from the Galileo spacecraft during its first encounter with the Jovian moon.
Science
Looking for water? Try Jupiter’s largest moon.
This artist's concept shows NASA's Dawn spacecraft arriving at the dwarf planet Ceres
Science
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft is already historic, and it’s just getting started
An artist's rendering of a habitable moon orbiting a gas giant planet.
Science
Life beyond Earth? The best bet may be on moons, not planets
An artist's rendering if Kepler 186f, a world extremely similar to Kepler 438b, an Earth-like exoplanet orbiting an M-class dwarf star in the habitable zone.
Science
Up close, ‘Earth-like’ planets are still wildly unfamiliar worlds
The Starry Night oil on canvas painting by Dutch post-impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh.
Arts
Was Van Gogh’s ‘Starry Night’ inspired by a scientific drawing?
Comet Lovejoy has probably passed through the inner solar system at least once already—we just weren't alive to see it.
Science
Look hard and you can see Comet Lovejoy lighting up the night sky
Condoms
Global Scan
Uganda says AIDS is on the rise because condoms are too small
Lunar eclipse
Science
This year’s October sky should be pretty cool — starting this morning
Galaxy formation
Science
The water on Earth is even older than the sun
An artist's impression of ESA's Rosetta approaching comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The comet image was taken on August 2, 2014, by the spacecraft's navigation camera at a distance of about 500 km. The spacecraft and comet are not to scale.
Science
Scientists prepare for a historic landing on a ‘seething and sputtering and spitting’ comet
Artist's drawing of a black hole named Cygnus X-1
Science
A high-powered telescope peers into the dark heart of a black hole
The planet Saturn is seen backlit by the sun, as seen from the Cassini spacecraft on July 19, 2013.
Environment
Saturn shows us how a moon might be born
The planet Saturn is seen backlit by the sun, as seen from the Cassini spacecraft on July 19, 2013.
Environment
Saturn shows us how a moon might be born
Sedna artist rendering
Environment
The discovery of a new ‘dwarf planet’ expands our view of the solar system
Sedna artist rendering
Environment
The discovery of a new ‘dwarf planet’ expands our view of the solar system
Environment
Gaia’s on a mission to create a 3-D map of the Milky Way’s stars
NASA scientist speaks at COSAT
Development & Education
School Year Blog: South African students meet a NASA scientist
Environment
NASA shares a family portrait of the inner solar system, starring Saturn
New Super Camera Seeks Answers to the Mystery of Dark Energy
Second Solar Storm Headed for Earth
NASA’s Kepler Spacecraft Will Never Search for Planets Again
Environment
Planck satellite scientists release picture of early universe
Environment
Meteorite explodes over Russia, hundreds injured in blast wave
Environment
European consortium planning huge telescope for Chilean desert
Environment
MIT professor explores planets for signs of life
Environment
Deep space photos offer a panoramic view of the universe
Environment
VIDEO: New planet, possibly habitable, discovered by NASA scientists
Environment
Earth enters period of turbulent solar weather
The Long Now Foundation’s 10,000-year clock
Environment
The science of time travel
Environment
The rise and fall of Pluto
Environment
John Hodgman interviews Neil deGrasse Tyson
Environment
The legacy of Carl Sagan
New Research Suggests Gold on Earth a Result of Crashing Stars
Environment
A Blue Planet with Molten Glass Rain and Supersonic Winds
Where in the Solar System Is Voyager 1?
Environment
Stargazers Discovering the UK’s ‘Dark Sky’ Locations
Comets to Watch for in 2013
A Visual Feast
Superman of Astrophysics
A Planet Made of Diamonds
Environment
The Sound of Earth’s Security Blanket
NASA’s ‘Chorus’ Recording, ‘Natural Radio’ and the Magnetosphere
Arts, Culture & Media
Hubble Telescope Captures Extreme Deep View of Universe
Arts, Culture & Media
Desert in Chile is Future Site of Extremely Large Telescope
Going Solar
Transit of Venus Visible in Today’s Sky