Looking for a sky event this week? Check out our full Sky This Week column. November 3: Venus and Spica, side by side Tonight Jupiter sports a three-for-one as Io transits with its shadow in tow and ...

As early as 2025, NASA’s astronauts will be back on the moon. It will be the first return since the 1970s, and the first time humans will explore the moon’s south polar region. What they find there ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. This coming total solar eclipse occurs in April, when the ...

Earthlings were privy to an exciting astronomical event last month: an annular solar eclipse, which cast a lunar shadow across the Arctic Circle. Today NASA shared an image of that shadow, taken by ...

A celestial conjunction event featuring Venus and Spica is anticipated for November 3. Jupiter is expected to display a multi-phase transit phenomenon involving Io and its shadow, along with Europa's ...