Sky This Week is brought to you in part by Celestron. Friday, May 15Are you familiar with the constellation Crater the Cup?

AdventureQuest Worlds has just dropped its May 2026 update, bringing the long-awaited Scion of Flames class to players who ...

Five years of imagery from NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) have been stitched together to create an all-sky and northern & southern ecliptic mosaics. Credit: NASA/MIT/TESS and ...

A Grand Theft Auto 6 fan has pulled out all the stops to predict when the third trailer is dropping, using the position of the planets to figure out the most likely date.

Every 26 months, Earth passes directly between the Sun and Mars. This alignment, known as the Mars opposition, is when spacecraft set a course for the Red Planet. The astronomer behind the recent ...

Here's when the first full moon of May 2026 will peak, how long it will be visible and a list of the remaining full moons of ...

An astronomical event dubbed as the planet parade or planetary alignment, which is when—in this case, four—planets are visible to the naked eye on the evening sky (Mars on left, Jupiter in the middle, ...

This faint glow after dusk isn’t the Milky Way. It’s dust from across the solar system. The zodiacal light glows to the left of the Milky Way in this 2013 photograph from Amboseli National Park, Kenya ...

The scintillation of radio sources caused by the interplanetary medium offers a means of studying the motion of the solar wind well away from the plane of the ecliptic, where direct measurements have ...

When my colleagues and I send them out to explore our solar system, it's important for us to understand the 3D map of our space neighborhood. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. The full corn moon — the final full of summer in the ...

The Moon reaches perigee at 1:59 P.M. EDT. Perigee is the point in the Moon’s orbit when it is closest to Earth; this afternoon, our satellite will sit 229,456 miles (369,274 km) away. Mercury is just ...