When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Miguel Claro is a professional photographer, author and science communicator based in Lisbon, ...

Looking at the night sky can, paradoxically, feel grounding; this is, of course, not to mention that interpreting constellations has been a rich source of navigation and storytelling for thousands of ...

Chris Hill peered through the lens of the telescope in his backyard one cold night, looking into the sea of stars and galaxies that pepper the night sky like grains of sand. He walked to a pair of ...

A skywatcher is literally beaming at the night sky in this star-speckled portrait. Astrophotographer Ruslan Merzlyakov captured this cosmic selfie while stargazing on the beach in Stenbjerg, Denmark ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover space and astrotourism where travel and science intersect. Despite all that’s gone on in the world this year, there have ...

Artists have been fascinated by the night sky and its dazzling cosmos for centuries. From Van Gogh’s trippy The Starry Night (1889) to Théodore Géricault’s eerie, green-tinged After the Deluge (1819) ...

Hello everyone! Your early morning eastern sky is still full of wonderful things and it’s worth getting up around 5:15 to have a look. You can see three planets, Venus, Jupiter and Mercury and all the ...

Greetings everyone! Your early morning sky is a delight this week with the two brightest planets and all those bright stars. Go outside at 5:10 a.m. (that’s one hour before sunrise) and face due east ...

He really did gogh the extra mile. “The Starry Night,” the 1889 hallmark artwork by Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh, is remarkably congruent to the astronomic principles of our sky, atmospheric ...

If you’re still buzzing from last week’s solar eclipse, we have a remedy for you. We know that all the street lamps in Philly cannot rival the natural beauty of a clear and starry night sky, so we’ve ...

Katherine Martinko is an expert in sustainable living. She holds a degree in English Literature and History from the University of Toronto. Few things are as awe-inspiring as a nighttime sky awash ...

Van Gogh arrived in Arles, France, in 1888, eager to escape the bustle of Paris. Installed in the Yellow House on Place Lamartine, he found some measure of peace: “There are some really beautiful ...