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

This time of year, Aileen O'Donoghue cheers and pumps her fists as the sun sets earlier and earlier. "I just love these early evenings! The dark reveals other things to us!" said O'Donoghue, ...

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Astronomers are often asked how the casual observer can distinguish planets from bright stars in the night sky. It is commonly thought, and with a certain degree of justification, that stars twinkle, ...

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 ...

I absolutely love stargazing in January. It’s worth bundling up for. Nights are long with some of the brightest constellations of the year. This January though is really something: Jupiter, Mars, ...

Of the five bright naked-eye planets, the two most favorably positioned for viewing during April are in the evening sky. Dazzling Venus, low in the west-northwest for about two hours after sunset, and ...