Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. The dark side of the moon is real — but it’s probably not ...

A planetary conjunction, with the moon and Saturn will occur overnight Jan. 23, NASA said. The rendezvous is what's known in astronomy as a conjunction, and it presents spectators with a rare ...

Two days after its new phase, the moon will make a close pass to Jupiter in the evening sky while the summer constellations will be rising. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

This rare lunar occurrence is coming at the perfect time. The seasonal “Black Moon” will appear – or rather, not appear – tonight, during one of the final nights of the Perseid meteor shower, ...

The summer Milky Way overhead and through the Summer Triangle stars in July, looking up through trees in Banff National Park at Herbert Lake Deneb is at top left, Vega at top right, and Altair is at ...