Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. The dark side of the moon is real — but it’s probably not ...

The summer Milky Way overhead and through the Summer Triangle stars in July, looking up through trees in Banff National Park at Herbert Lake Deneb is at top left, Vega at top right, and Altair is at ...

New research suggests that the far side of the Moon—often mistaken as its “dark” side—is much drier than scientists anticipated. This surprising discovery, made using samples returned by China’s Chang ...

This year’s harvest moon is going to be a little more, well, super. The first full moon of fall, coming the night of Oct. 6, will appear a little bigger and brighter than usual as it rises over the ...

A series of striking celestial events will unfold in the night sky during the second half of March 2026. From rare planetary ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The next full moon will be the December 'cold moon' of 2025 — set to rise amid the longest nights of the year as a special, large, ...

The crescent moon is one of the most recognisable things in the night sky. At dusk or dawn, a lot of people have seen a thin, curved line of light in .