A stunning photo of a "parade of planets", shows Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Saturn, Venus, Neptune, and Mercury in alignment from Earth. The image could be the first of its kind. When you purchase through ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Earth could be about to record its fastest-ever rotation.

A vast, tangled cluster of dark patches has rotated into direct view, its magnetic fields twisted enough to invite comparisons with the legendary Carrington sunspot that heralded the most powerful ...

A January 2026 Earth–Sun alignment allows measurements of the opposition surge from interstellar object 3I/ATLAS using ...

Harvard's Avi Loeb says a rare sun alignment on 22 January could prove interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS is an alien spaceship.

Meanwhile, on its way out of the solar system, on March 16, 2026, 3I/ATLAS will encounter one of the farthest of Jupiter’s ...

The upcoming year will offer a blood-red moon, spectacular meteor showers and the first glimpse of the sun’s corona since ...