Aotearoa New Zealand officially celebrates Matariki for the fourth time, marked by the reappearance in the night sky of the ...

Vantablack 310 is one of the darkest paints ever, and it could be the key to eliminating light pollution caused by satellites ...

How light pollution can imperil migrating birds by luring them into cities Migrating birds need stopover locations en route where they can rest and feed. A new study shows that artificial light ...

“Nightly light pollution — a modifiable environmental factor — may be an important risk factor.” Nearly 7 million Americans have been diagnosed with dementia — Alzheimer’s disease is ...

The new study, published in the journal Science Advances, shows that global light pollution has increased by about 2 percent per year from 2012 to 2016. This increase is important to document ...

Pandora Dewan is a Senior Science Reporter at Newsweek based in London, UK. Her focus is reporting on science, health and technology. Pandora joined Newsweek in 2022 and previously worked as the ...

Exposure to light pollution may increase the risk of Alzheimer's disease, particularly in people under 65, a new study suggests. Researchers from Rush University Medical Center in Chicago found ...

States with an overexposure to artificial light pollution—particularly at night—are linked to an increased risk of Alzheimer's disease, according to a new study by scientists at Rush ...

The Perseid meteor shower is peaking this weekend, just in time for Debby, now a post-tropical cyclone, to depart the region. For amateur astronomers and fans of stargazing, that means in the ...

Each year, due to an increase in light pollution as urban areas get brighter, less and less of the night sky is visible. Nationally, light pollution is growing at a rate of about 10 percent a year ...