Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. From specific geographical areas, the waning gibbous moon ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Look up at the sky on Monday, Feb. 2, and you may notice a certain bright star is hidden from view. This special celestial event — ...

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 ...

The waning gibbous Moon passes 0.4° due north of Regulus in Leo at 10 P.M. EST this evening. The pairing is visible across the U.S., as the region housing them rises in the east around 6:45 P.M. local ...

Venus is turning the western evening sky into a stage for two easy-to-see celestial encounters this July, first passing ...

The moon is our nearest neighbor in space, at an average distance of about 238,000 miles. As it orbits our Earth every month or so, it appears to pass by stars and planets in our night sky … or, at ...

Saturday evening, April 25, people across parts of the eastern United States will be able to watch a rare lunar occultation as the Moon passing directly in front of Regulus, the brightest star in the ...

The moon is our nearest neighbor in space, at an average distance of about 238,000 miles. As it orbits our Earth every month or so, it appears to pass by stars and planets in our night sky … or, at ...

TOLEDO, Ohio — If you’re an early riser (or willing to become one), the morning of Saturday, Sept. 20, promises one of the best naked-eye sky events of the year: a slim crescent moon, the brilliant ...

Look up at the sky on Monday, Feb. 2, and you may notice a certain bright star is hidden from view. This special celestial event — a lunar occultation — occurs when the moon passes in front of the ...