Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. A brightening comet is becoming easier to see before sunrise ...

If you haven't ventured out and looked up at the skies over the last week at night — or really all of 2024 — you're missing out on quite the show. First, there were the northern lights that danced and ...

In what astronomers have billed a once-in-a-lifetime event, the Comet PanSTARRS, which was discovered in 2025, will be visible tonight, April 17, possibly with the naked eye. The best viewing time was ...

Over the weekend, comet C/2024 (ATLAS) made a grand appearance in images from the ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO). The comet will continue to blaze through SOHO’s view for the next ...

Space, it’s full of surprises. An object, discovered at the beginning of the year, was first thought to be an asteroid. But then it grew a tail. Astronomers with the Mount Lemmon Survey in Arizona ...

Another comet, C/2025 A6 Lemmon, is possibly becoming bright enough to be visible to the naked eye in the coming days.(WTOP/Greg Redfern) A year ago, the D.C. region was enthralled with Comet A3 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. You’ve likely already heard about two comets visible from ...

Australians will have their only chance to spy a newly discovered blue-green comet scorching past Earth during the next fortnight – coinciding with the flashy peak of a meteor shower – before the ...

A comet making its closest pass to Earth Tuesday may be visible to the naked eye in the evening skies above Connecticut. Comet Lemmon, which was discovered earlier this year, will pass by at about ...

A brightening comet is becoming easier to see before sunrise from across the Northern Hemisphere — and the morning of Wednesday, April 15, offers one of the most beautiful sky scenes of the week.