A weak high-pressure system is affecting the area on Thursday, with a low-pressure system expected to arrive on Friday. Light ...

Seventy light-years from Earth, a star called Kappa Tucanae A harbors one of astronomy's most perplexing mysteries: dust so ...

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 ...

Periodic storms in Texas this week may paint the sky orange. Here's the science behind changing colors during weather events.

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 ...

The Bahuun Dust Light, a $33 attachment (often on sale for less), with a hundreds of reviews on Amazon, promises an ...

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 ...

Did you know that it’s possible to see the solar system glow? Not just the tiny planets moving slowly around the sun, but even the dust within it–and it’s a spectacular sight that in 2019 is close to ...

James Geach receives funding from The Royal Society. The star KIC 8462852 rose to fame this year when astronomers discovered that its light occasionally dimmed in a really weird way. At the time, no ...

Back at the end of the last century, I and many other readers around the world were bowled over by “The Voyage of the Narwhal” (1998), Andrea Barrett’s fictional account of a band of American ...