Moon halos are more visible around a full moon during ... those clouds cleared the Western Carolinas to bring a sunny, blue sky to start the week.

Looking up in the sky may be a favorite pastime of yours, and if so, you may have spotted a common winter phenomenon.

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. A new study claims to have discovered about 200 ancient stars in the Milky Way’s halo, the most ... [+] distant of which is ...

We are looking at another aspect of optics in the atmosphere and the “cool” stuff you can sometimes see in the winter ...

Scientists are keen to get to the bottom of the dark matter puzzle because this phenomenon accounts for the vast majority of the "stuff" in the universe — about 85%, in fact. That means everything we ...

An upside down "rainbow" has been spotted in the sky above Essex ... The Met Office said the phenomenon was a type of halo formed when sunlight refracts through horizontal ice crystals, at ...