Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Angled view of the Giordano Bruno, Lunar crater, 2016. The ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- Have you ever looked at the moon, as it was rising above the horizon and thought "WOW! The moon looks HUGE", only to have it appear to shrink as it continued to rise into the ...

The moon has been Earth's close companion for billions of years, and while our view of its shape and size varies somewhat as it orbits our planet, it remains a constant presence in the sky. But could ...

Space enthusiasts are over the moon about this celestial discovery. On Tuesday, researcher Kacper Wierzchos posted on Twitter that he and Theodore Pruyne, as part of the NASA-funded Catalina Sky ...

In August, an amateur French astronomer, Adrien Coffinet, messaged an email list dedicated to asteroid and comet research with an announcement. He’d identified a new quasi-moon: “2025 PN7 seems to be ...

The Moon Holds Way More Water Than Previously Imagined Space experts have discovered something incredible about lunar water distribution that challenges everything we thought we knew. According to a ...

For the most part, our moon is nothing particularly special. It isn’t home to a series of active volcanoes, a thick atmosphere chalked full of nitrogen (with oceans of liquid hydrocarbons), or ...

Friends and family in social media were sharing an article claiming that on July 27th, 2018 Mars would be as large as the moon. This is a myth. There is a "blood moon" this weekend, and there will be ...

The moon has been Earth's close companion for billions of years, and while our view of its shape and size varies somewhat as it orbits our planet, it remains a constant presence in the sky. But could ...