Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. This article is more than 5 years old. The waxing crescent ...

Step outside as evening twilight fades, and from now through the middle of August you’ll find three planets shining low in the west — one much brighter than the other two. All you’ll need is a clear ...

Look low in the west-northwest after sunset in late May, and you can watch Venus, Jupiter, and Mercury pirouetting through the tightest gathering of three naked-eye planets that the world will see ...

On Tuesday, April 23, the Full Pink Moon made a dramatic appearance after sunset in the eastern sky. When my community education astronomy class broke up at 8:30 p.m., we filed out of the door to face ...

December is the month of the winter solstice, which is often associated with such festivals as the Nativity. Ask people at random and 19 out of 20 will say that it is the birthday of Jesus. Yet, the ...

In the immortal words of Charlton Heston, "You maniacs! You blew it up!" Four years after The Twilight Zone ended its five-season run on CBS in 1964, creator Rod Serling proved he still had the power ...