Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Early risers are this week being treated to the sight of a ...

Hurricanes, as destructive as they are, also play a crucial role in keeping Earth’s climate balanced and our planet green and ...

In just some of many celestial highlights of August 2025, stargazers peeped a "planet parade" and caught a rare Venus and Jupiter conjunction, with plenty more dazzling displays in the night sky to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. A rare six-planet parade will stretch across the sky before ...

Skywatchers who spotted the Jupiter-Venus conjunction on Aug. 12 are in for a dazzling display in the night sky through the end of August, with a "planet parade" building in the eastern sky, with ...

The upcoming year will offer a blood-red moon, spectacular meteor showers and the first glimpse of the sun’s corona since ...

Xi Zhang, a professor of Earth and planetary science at UC Santa Cruz, has discovered that an exoplanet classed as a ...

Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system (so large, in fact, that some scientists think it might have even consumed other worlds), a gas giant so massive that it shaped the orbits and ...

Loggerhead Marinelife Center logged 20,872 nests, a nearly 40% increase from the previous year. Despite the high numbers, some nests were lost to beach erosion. Researchers advise beachgoers to keep ...