Even the best telescopes can’t see exoplanets. It’s all about watching for jiggly stars, blue shifts, and transits.

At around 10:00 p.m. local time on Sunday (Nov. 9), if you look low toward the east-northeast sky, you will see a waning gibbous moon, 72 percent illuminated, and shining prominently below it will be ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. The action will happen in the east-northeast night sky about ...

Some planets in our solar system have an incredible amount of moons. Jupiter has 95, with names like Ganymede and Europa. Remarkably, though, Saturn has almost three times that number, including the ...

Be sure to look up for one of October's most beautiful sky pairings Cheng Xin/Getty On Monday, Oct. 13, into early Tuesday, Oct. 14, the moon and Jupiter will appear side by side just before midnight ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. We humans love shapes in the night sky. We see images of ...

The period features lunar close approaches to Uranus and Jupiter, including the Last Quarter Moon phase. Jupiter also presents transit events of its Galilean moons, Io and Europa, accompanied by their ...

A close conjunction of the waning crescent Moon (approximately 26% illuminated) and Jupiter occurred around 7 A.M. EDT, observable in the eastern sky before sunrise, with the Moon positioned between ...

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The team at System-Sounds.com has converted the orbits of Jupiter moon's Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto in to mind-bending music and optical illusions. Credit: System-Sounds.com Nigel Farage warns ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft made a close flyby of Jupiter moon lo. See an animation of the images the probe captured created by Koji Kuramura and Gerald Eichstädt. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS | ...

The full moon in August is called the "Sturgeon Moon" The full moon will peak on August 9. September's full moon is called the "Corn Moon" This August full moon will be visible for not just one but ...