This month, the national park’s lustrous night skies sparked a new superlative: Big Bend became part of the largest dark sky area in the world. Dark sky areas—parks, communities, and reserves ...

While the Milky Way is technically visible year-round, certain times offer better viewing opportunities — especially for ...

The Greater Big Bend International Dark Sky Reserve encompasses over 9 million acres across West Texas and parts of Mexico, according to Dark Sky International, a nonprofit dedicated to combating ...

The closest class 1 locations are in Texas at Big Bend National Park and Greater Big Bend Dark Sky Reserve. Several game species are available to hunt at Dewey W. Wills, including deer ...

The closest class 1 locations are in Texas at Big Bend National Park and Greater Big Bend Dark Sky Reserve. Gemma Simmons, 4, left, and Courtney Simmons, share a vanilla gelato while waiting to ...

Dark matter is more than five times as abundant as all the visible matter in the universe. So why can't we see any of it?

Sunday in that bleak pandemic summer of 2020, the air near central California’s Big Basin Redwoods State Park felt muggy, almost tropical. Weird, thought naturalist Christian ...

A Necropolis is a mere depository for dead bodies,” Douglass wrote. “Green-Wood,” on the other hand, implied “verdure, shade, ...

The aviator’s publicity-mad husband, George Palmer Putnam, kept pushing her to risk her life for the sake of fame.