North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead, which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the northern hemisphere. This week features a rare conjunction.

The Webb and Hubble telescopes blessed us with breathtaking new images of the cosmos earlier this month, leaving many folks inspired to learn more about space. Thanks to these astronomy apps, you can ...

Short nights and bright stars make the midsummer night sky surprisingly beginner-friendly.

For millennia, humans have peered into the night sky in an attempt to understand—or maybe just marvel at—the cosmos. Although there’s a simple beauty in experiencing stars and planets with the naked ...

Let’s explore the features of all of these software one by one. Stellarium is a free Planetarium software that lets you explore space, heavenly bodies, galaxies, constellations, etc. When you launch ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. This week the stars bring us the start of two fireball-rich ...