Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Each Monday, I pick out North America’s celestial highlights ...

When you look up in the night sky, our moon is unmissable.Just like Earth, it's round and has a solid, rocky surface. But is our moon actually a planet? The answer is technically no — at least ...

Those enjoying the show the heavens have been kind enough to provide in April, such as the pink moon or Paschal moon, are in for another treat. This is because of a rare alignment of two planets, and ...

An artistic rendering of a dust and gas disk encircling the young exoplanet, CT Cha b, 625 light-years from Earth. Spectroscopic data from NASA’s JWST suggest the disk contains the raw materials for ...

If you are into planets and also like to get up pre-dawn (much easier in the Northern hemisphere now that it is winter here), ...

Summer nights will bring everything from planets, full moons, and star-studded constellations to "shooting stars," the Milky Way, and more. Summer is the season for stargazing. Sure, nights can be ...

Is the moon a star or a planet? The correct answer is "neither," but that's not the consensus reached when the argument comes up in this funny TV clip. During a recent show for the QVC shopping ...

The first full moon of 2025 is nearly here. Dubbed the "wolf moon" for its connection to wolves calling on those long January nights, this month's other astronomical events will give skywatchers ...

Many of the most interesting bodies in our Solar System aren’t planets, but the moons that orbit them. They have active volcanoes, hydrocarbon oceans, geysers, and moon-wide oceans buried under icy ...

A mysterious comet flying through our solar system may be doing more than just passing by—it could help explain how giant planets like Jupiter are born. At a major planetary science conference in ...

"We expected to see this effect, but we were still surprised by just how efficient these stars seem to be at engulfing their close planets." Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), ...