Stars streak across the horizon in beautiful patterns. And when you zoom in on Earth at night, city grids and their bright gold lights form fascinating shapes on a pitch-black landscape.

The reason city folk can't see a true starry sky is light pollution. Photos of Earth at night from space show entire ...

Solar eruptions created a northern lights display in North America and Europe overnight, with more auroras expected through Thursday.

When an area is in darkness, we call it night-time. Our planet Earth actually tilted. This means that at certain times in our year, part of the Earth will be closer to or further away from the Sun.

When in December 2012, the NOAA National Geophysical Data Center and the NASA Earth Observatory released a new map of the Earth as it appears at night they “found something fishy off the coast ...

The Earth completes one rotation every 24 hours to give us day and night. When Britain faces the Sun it is daytime, but the other side of the world is in darkness. So in Australia it is the middle ...