When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. NASA's Juno spacecraft has detected interplanetary particles that suggest Martian storms fill the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. The pyramid-shaped glow of "zodiacal light" is caused by ...

The ice and rocky dust left in Earth's orbit by Halley's Comet creates an annual meteor show. Here's all you need to know.

At this time of year, there’s a “false dusk” visible after sunset. From a dark location, you can see the cone-shaped glow reaching upward from the western horizon, rising through the constellations ...

Researchers have discovered that traces of space dust found in sediment cores from the ocean floor can shed light on the ...

For centuries now, humans have observed the astronomical phenomenon of “zodiacal light.” (Occasionally known by the more romantic moniker, “zodiacal glow.”) The phenomenon takes form as a triangular ...

Meet HD 98800, a nearby quadruple‑star system in the constellation Crater. It sits about 150 light‑years away and is 10 ...

In a study published November 6 in the journal Science, researchers used space dust to make a 30,000-year timeline of ice ...

Joshua Rhoades was standing near an abandoned farmhouse in rural Illinois on a windy night in early March, fiddling with his camera, when he noticed what he called “a faint, eerie, ethereal glow” ...

A weak high-pressure system is affecting Cyprus on Monday, with a low-pressure area expected from Wednesday, according to the meteorological service. Thin layers of dust will occasionally be present ...

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