Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. DarkSky International has designated more than 2.4 million acres in Southeast Oregon, including Lake County, as a dark sky ...

Oregon has gained a reputation as something of a dark sky paradise. While Oregonians have long known about the particularly dark skies in some of the more rural parts of the state — which allow people ...

Oregon is the No. 3 location in the U.S. “to catch a real asteroid sighting without needing a telescope or a degree in astrophysics.” So says a new study from The Action Network, released just in time ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Joey Hamilton A visitor looking up at a starry sky in the Oregon Outback. Think “Oregon,” and the state’s western woods and misty ...

Travelers might know of the Oregon Outback for its high desert, natural hot springs, and scenic byway that snakes across vast, remote plains. These make up a stark landscape that's fascinating to ...

This week is International Dark Sky Week and Central Oregon is once again joining in the celebration. For the second year in a row, Bend and Deschutes County have each made a proclamation that skies ...

If you want a good look at the night sky, it helps to head out of town and stay up late. That’s the idea behind The Eugene Astronomical Society’s “Dark Sky Parties,” which are held each summer at ...

Find out what's up in your night sky during February 2026 and how to see it in this Space.com stargazing guide.

Southeast Oregon is a patchwork of high desert, mountains, and volcanic landscape, stitched together by river canyons and long stretches of solitude. When darkness falls on clear nights across this ...

Think “Oregon,” and the state’s western woods and misty mountains likely come to mind; moss-shrouded, eternally drizzly, evocatively lush. But there is a different side of the state, literally, east ...