The month brings a strong lineup of celestial sights, including a supermoon, meteor activity, and several close moon-planet ...

The final night of 2025 is the perfect time to watch the moon close to the Pleiades, find the brightest star in the night sky ...

Meteors from the Ursids appear near the Little Dipper, which is part of the constellation Ursa Minor. Only skywatchers in the ...

The Ursid Meteor Shower is a subtle but reliable annual celestial event that occurs each December around the winter solstice.

This week, the night sky offers a rare celestial spectacle that promises to captivate stargazers across North America. Among the highlights are the dazzling Star of Bethlehem and the continued Geminid ...

One of the coolest things you can get a child, or even an adult, for Christmas is a telescope. If one of those appeared under ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS, the third interstellar object ever detected, reached its closest point to Earth overnight from Thursday to Friday (Dec. 18 to 19), and it remains in a good viewing position tonight.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Supermoon is the popular term for a perigee full moon — when ...

Ursid meteor shower peaks Dec. 21–22 as Earth passes through debris from Comet 8P/Tuttle. Here’s when and where to watch the ...

NOAA says the best time to potentially see northern lights from the U.S. is from 6 p.m. - 6 a.m. CT. A geomagnetic storm watch was issued by the NOAA on Thursday, with predicted storm categories ...

The hours following sunset on Dec. 25 offer a wealth of naked-eye astronomy targets that can put even the most glitzy ...

With major eclipses, brilliant supermoons, and lineups of five or more planets, 2026 offers something awe-inspiring in every season. Here’s what to watch for. Solar prominences and their associated ...