Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. What is the bright white star in the east right now?

The Spring Triangle, formed by the stars Arcturus, Spica and Regulus, becomes visible in late March and lingers in the sky ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The moon and Venus will shine vividly alongside a bright star in the early morning in a striking celestial rendezvous that should ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Have you seen the “Christmas Star?” Step outside after dark ...

Comet PanSTARRS, C/2025 R3, is nearing Earth in a rare cosmic treat. Can you see it in Bucks County? Here's where to look as ...

As the year nears its end, the winter solstice brings the year’s longest nights for those of us who reside in the Northern Hemisphere. And through the season, Mother Nature has seen to it that our ...

Skywatchers across parts of North America are getting front-row seats to a lunar occultation, where Luna makes one of the brightest stars in the night sky vanish Getty Set your alarms, stargazers! The ...

Astronomers use many mnemonics (memory tricks?) to remember stars and constellations. One of these that is visible right now is the Winter Circle. Follow Orion’s three belt stars southeast (down and ...

The constellations Canis Major and Canis Minor are Orion the Hunter’s faithful companions in our starry skies.

The Moon passes 5° north of Uranus in the constellation Taurus at 10 P.M. EST; before that, though, a nearly Full Moon passes in front of several stars in the Pleiades star cluster (M45), occulting ...

A conjunction is an astronomical event in which at least two planets – or, in this case, other celestial bodies – appear to our vantage from Earth to be close together in the sky. The trio of ...

Skywatchers across parts of North America are getting front-row seats to a lunar occultation, where Luna makes one of the brightest stars in the night sky vanish Regulus, one of the brightest stars in ...