Mysterious Bright Flashes in the Night Sky Baffle Astronomers Celestial transients shine furiously and briefly. Astronomers ...

Multiple sightings of a bright object streaking across the night sky in the western United States were reported to the ...

Sky This Week is brought to you in part by Celestron. Friday, December 12Ganymede reappears from occultation behind Jupiter overnight tonight, late on the 12th in the western U.S. and early on the ...

December means the winter solstice is coming, it arrives on Dec. 21, and we are in for a couple of very cold and snowy months in Wyoming. Even though it’s ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Skywatchers looking east a couple of hours after dark this ...

A snowy Friday night may hide the stars over central Wisconsin, but the week ahead still offers plenty to see: Saturn’s ...

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.

If you have any clear night skies this week, bundle up and get outside to see the best meteor shower of the year!

Bright yellow fireballs streak across skies around the globe in the popular Geminids meteor shower will lighten the skies on ...

The Geminid meteor shower is considered one of the best of the year and will hit its peak activity in mid-December. Here's what you need to know.

The beginning of winter is a great time to be taking up astronomy, with long dark nights and a multitude of bright stars on display, Nigel Henbest writes ...

The Cincinnati Observatory posted a video of a fireball spotting in Cincinnati skies and reported the observatory’s first ...