Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Ask any stargazer for their top five sights and you’ll ...

Jupiter and Venus will appear in a line with the waning crescent Moon in mid-May, providing a perfect opportunity for some ...

An 8%-lit waxing crescent moon —"the new moon in the old moon's arms" — will be visible in the west just after sunset on Monday, Aug. 25, 2025. (Photo by: Alan Dyer/VWPics/Universal Images Group via ...

Sky This Week is brought to you in part by Celestron. Friday, May 8Pluto is stationary at 7 A.M. EDT in Capricornus, although ...

Heads up stargazers! The moon will shine close to the bright star Antares at sunset on Sept. 27, while some lucky viewers — and plenty of penguins — will witness the lunar disk pass directly in front ...

The crescent moon will shine close to the gas giant Jupiter in the morning sky on July 23, with its shadow-veiled disk softly lit by sunlight reflected off Earth's surface, a ghostly effect known as ...

If you have binoculars, you may even spot some of Jupiter’s largest moons as tiny pinpoints beside the planet ...

Meteorologist Jennifer Gray: Most people think of the moon as a nighttime object, but it’s actually visible during the day ...