Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Jupiter as seen by NASA spacecraft JUno on its 48th orbit, ...

This "grand slam event" - a triple eclipse or "triple transit" - won't happen again for a decade. The video also shows the solar system's largest moon, Ganymede, eclipsing another moon, Europa. See ...

Whether it be with naked-eye viewing, through a pair of binoculars, or with a beginner’s telescope, a certain amount of ...

Saturn and Neptune will be in the same binocular view for the entire month. Neptune lies 3.5 degrees northeast of Saturn on ...

An image of a "spectacular" solar eclipse on Jupiter has mesmerized viewers on Reddit. The incredible moment was captured by AJ Smadi, a 19-year-old "astrophotographer" in Washington state (@aj.smadi ...

On September 12, NASA’s Juno spacecraft performed its twenty-second close flyby of Jupiter, careening down until it was just 8,000 kilometers (4,970 miles) above the gas giant’s clouds The images of ...

In 2026, health means balance. Celestial events will affect stress and relationships. Eclipses will disrupt sleep and ...

Mercury retrograde occurs in the three water signs (Pisces, Cancer, and Scorpio) from February 26 to March 20 in Pisces, June ...

Three of Jupiter's largest moons will cast their shadows simultaneously on the planet below them, creating three solar eclipses at the same time: a rare cosmic event. A solar eclipse happens when a ...

The giant planet Jupiter is dominating the springtime sky. It is high up in the southern sky at 9 p.m. Although its opposition and closest point to us was more than a month ago, the planet remains ...

Astronomers have found that Jupiter's Galilean satellites (Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto) remain slightly bright (up to one millionth of their normal state) even when in the Jovian shadow and not ...