Venus, Jupiter and Mercury headline a spectacular month of planetary viewing.

How unfortunate that combust — an astronomically useful adjective — has become all but obsolete. It was once defined as referring to the moon or a planet that is invisible to the naked eye because of ...

For several weeks now, the planet Venus has been rising higher and higher above the western horizon in the early evening sky, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Sky-watchers who saw the Venus-Jupiter conjunction on ...

The upcoming year will offer a blood-red moon, spectacular meteor showers and the first glimpse of the sun’s corona since April 2024 Look up throughout the year to catch a wide array of astronomical ...

Who’s ready for a “planet parade”? The last planetary alignment was in August 2025, when six planets aligned and four were bright enough to be seen without a telescope. Next week, Mercury, Venus, ...

Rogue planet moons habitable for 4.3 billion years without any star? A new LMU and Max Planck Institute study shows tidal ...

Every year, Earth follows a familiar pattern of seasonal changes: As summer rolls around in the Northern Hemisphere, winter creeps in in the Southern Hemisphere, and vice versa. But do other planets ...

A new study suggests that a star 550 light-years away is gobbling up the remains of destroyed planets. RZ Piscium is a sun-like star estimated to be between 30 and 50 million years old — an infant ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. A planet parade — mistakenly called a planetary alignment by ...