In April 2021, astronomy educator John Heasley set out to see just how dark the skies were in southwestern Wisconsin's Vernon County. He measured the brightness of the night sky in three public recreational areas — Wildcat Mountain State Park, the ...

A dramatic sky appeared over the Wisconsin Dells area on Tuesday (April 14). Video shows striking mammatus clouds illuminated in deep orange and golden tones against the dusk sky. The scene comes amid a severe weather outbreak across south-central Wisconsin,

Aurora Borealis, also known as the Northern Lights, lit up the night sky in Wisconsin on Thursday, Oct. 10. A coronal mass ejection from the sun reached Earth's atmosphere on Thursday, creating a geomagnetic storm, which fuels the aurora. MILWAUKEE ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Stargazers around Wisconsin caught a light show Thursday night as Starlink satellites made their way across the sky. It was the second time in about a year the satellites, which were ...

According to WKOW and WTMJ, the moment occurred shortly before 7 a.m. Thursday. The University of Wisconsin – Madison’s Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences’ rooftop cameras were rolling when the meteor shot across the sky overhead.

Residents in northern Wisconsin are reporting increasing instances of loons falling out of the sky, with cold weather conditions affecting the migrating birds. According to the Raptor Education Group, a Wisconsin-based non-profit organization, the "loon ...