The month of January starts off with the last of four supermoons, plus bright meteors flashing across the sky! Keep looking up throughout the month, though, as the two largest planets in the solar ...
The Ojibwe constellation Biboonkeonini, or the Winter Maker, overlaps with the Greek constellation Orion the Hunter. The ...
As winter deepens across the Northern Hemisphere, the constellation Orion takes center stage in the night sky. On the evening ...
A portrait of Orion and the northern winter Milky Way, on a February night, 2020. (Photo by: Alan Dyer/VW PICS/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) One of the most famous and recognizable ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. This week, the moon quietly exits the sky — opening the way ...
There is so much going on this month for stargazers, including lunar conjunctions and cover-ups. One of the great meteor showers also puts on a show. October is a transitional month, both in terms of ...
With the moon out of the way on Jan. 18, bright Jupiter and Saturn become stand-outs in the January night sky.
The winter solstice, marking the first day of winter, occurs on Sunday, Dec. 21. Learn how and why it happens. The sun rises above a bank of "sea smoke" over Lake Superior in Grand Marais on Dec. 14.
On January 18, 2026, the new moon creates dark skies for observing Jupiter, Saturn, and the Orion constellation. Detailed positions and celestial coordinates for global observers are provided.