The sky looks blue because blue light scatters more than other colors when sunlight hits the atmosphere. This scattering ...

Sunset, Banffshire (Image: Christine Webster) “Blue light doesn’t travel particularly well through the air, which is why the sky is blue," he said. "It gets scattered across the top of the ...

which is precisely why the sky is blue. At sunset, however, sunlight travels a much longer distance through the atmosphere. Most of the blue light is scattered out of view, leaving behind the ...

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky ... a sunset on the moon. That will all change later this year when Firefly Aerospace sends its spacecraft, Blue Ghost, to ...