Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. The five-planet parade continues with its last best week, ...

For generations, humanity has stared into the velvet abyss of the night sky, asking the same existential question: are we truly alone? In just a few days, that query may finally move from the realms ...

Solar Maximum 2025 is the expected peak of solar activity in Solar Cycle 25, characterized by heightened sunspots, solar flares, and coronal mass ejections. This peak is anticipated around mid to late ...

Our sun is about five times less magnetically active than other sunlike stars—effectively a special case. The reason for this could reside in the planets in our solar system, say researchers at the ...

Skywatchers who spotted the Jupiter-Venus conjunction on Aug. 12 are in for a dazzling display in the night sky through the end of August, with a "planet parade" building in the eastern sky, with ...