We met Brian Hawkins, a Redondo Beach mechanical engineer-turned-videographer, in the near-empty lobby of the Yosemite Valley Lodge. It was just after 9 on a Tuesday night in late April.

I realized that most folks have no idea what a dark night sky really looks like, and even when people camp in places like Yosemite or Sequoia, many of them spend the evening hours staring into a ...

Back in November, Kevin Alvarez and his friends took a trip to Yosemite, where a moonless night provided the perfect conditions for stargazing and star photography. “It really [was] magical ...

"A lot of people don't realize that we even get rainbows at night in Yosemite," filmmaker Steve Bumgardner explained in the YouTube video, which he created for the Yosemite Nature Notes series.