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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

A European telescope has spotted a vast tendril of cosmic dust reaching across a dense cloud in deep space. The huge, tentacle-like filament of dust is more than 10 light-years long and is anchored 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 ...

I BELIEVE that the collection of dust upon electric light wires and fittings is generally attributed to air currents, due to thermal causes, the same thing occurring, to some extent, with hot-water ...