At night, the sky on Mars looks dark and full of stars, even more than on Earth. The air is thin, so stars look clearer and brighter. Mars has two small moons—Phobos and Deimos. Phobos moves quickly ...

From our vantage point inside it, the Milky Way can feel infinite, a hazy river of light that wraps around the sky. Yet when ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. As autumn nights grow longer, one of the sky’s brightest ...

This time-lapse video of the night sky over Joshua Tree uses no special effects; what you see is the path of stars across the sky as the Earth spins. The result looks a little like the painterly ...

“What’s up in the sky?” is a recurring feature and publishes on the first of every month. You can find it on WTOP’s The Space Place. Email Greg your space questions and he might answer them in the ...