If city lights block the stars over your backyard, this map can help you hunt down the darkest skies for epic stargazing.

Here's how to find the darkest skies for stargazing, including how to find an area with a low Bortle Number, apps and maps to find dark places, and a guide to dark sky parks and reserves.

Each level classifies the night sky based on their cosmic views. You can find the Bortle Scale level for your night sky using the interactive map tool at lightpollutionmap.info .

I remember the first time I saw a truly dark sky. My parents had sent 12-year-old me to a summer camp in the mountains of central Virginia. I’d grown up in the Washington, D.C., suburbs, where ...

The Adirondack region is taking steps to preserve its dark night skies, with a proposed bill aiming to reduce light pollution ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Space is a dusty place. Really dusty. It’s so dusty ...

To see the Milky Way in all its glory, you’ll want to keep the Bortle scale in mind. This scale measures night sky brightness, going from 1 (excellent dark sky, typically seen in the most remote of ...

The moon, the brightest and largest object in our night sky, isn’t technically a planet. That’s because it orbits around the Earth, not the sun.

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 ...

Mercury joins the night sky to complete a seven-planet alignment just after sunset for the end of February. Saturn leaves our view starting in March. Look up!