I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve seen the Little Dipper—the 2003 blackout, a family trip to the Grand…

Officially on the bucket list: Rafting down the Grand Canyon and camping out on its rocky banks under a night sky…

Clouds form when warm, humid air rises into the cooler atmosphere, and all that water vapor condenses into tiny…

There’s an existential beauty in the fact that everything on this Earth will eventually fall into decay; that our…

Dry Tortugas National Park is one of the darkest places on the east coast of the United States. So if you’re going to…

There’s nothing that makes you feel smaller than an expanse of nothing but sand and sky.

Death Valley is one of the harshest environments on the planet, but you wouldn’t know it if you happened to visit last…

It sometimes feels like Mars, Pluto, and planets beyond our solar system get all the attention. But let’s be real:…

West Virginia is probably best known for coal mines, followed closely by pepperoni rolls. You know aspect of the state…

With gold-plated space telescopes promising to discover distant worlds and unravel the deepest mysteries of the…

It’s easy to remember how big the universe is when you can just stare up at the night sky and find an uncountable…