Venus is still shining brightly in the early morning sky. Go out at 5 a.m. and face due east and unless it’s completely overcast, our neighbor will be impossible to miss. And if you have a look this ...

Most people haven't witnessed a true night sky. They may have seen photos of starry skies full of cosmic light, but in person ...

“The Starry Night,” the 1889 hallmark artwork by Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh, is remarkably congruent to the astronomic principles of our sky, atmospheric scientists recently discovered.

To convince the dubious, Wren offers an example: Van Gogh's "Starry Night," painted in 1889. When he imagines the painting with today's light polluted skies, the night sly looked more like this: ...

Vincent Van Gogh's Starry Night is one of the Dutch post-Impressionist's best-known masterpieces, famous for its dreamy swirling evocation of the landscape he saw from the window of an asylum in ...

During the course of a 13-second exposure, the International Space Station makes a trail of light in the sky as the station ...

The dappled starlight and swirling clouds of Vincent van Gogh’s “The Starry Night” are thought to reflect the artist’s tumultuous state of mind when he painted the work in 1889. Now, a new ...

The starry night harlequin toad has been lost to science since 1991. However, a collaboration between Colombian non-profit Fundación Atelopus and the Arhuaco indigenous group has managed to ...

When I was 8 or 9, on a clear starry night in Kerala, my father showed me how to identify the North Star. My science teacher had just covered constellations the previous day in class, and I was ...

Preserving the starry, starry night. August 10, 2014 / 9:28 AM EDT / CBS News Astronomers and stargazers combat light pollution, to bask in the awe-inspiring splendor of a truly dark sky .