Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Have you seen the “Christmas Star?” Step outside after dark ...

Avid sky-gazers spend all year anticipating the peak of the annual Geminid meteor shower. Now, it’s finally here. This weekend, dozens of meteors, including some especially brilliant ones called ...

Avid sky-gazers spend all year anticipating the peak of the annual Geminid meteor shower. Now, it's finally here. This weekend, dozens of meteors, including some especially brilliant ones called ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — One of the best meteor showers of the year, the Geminid meteor shower, is here. The star fall event peaks Saturday night, Dec. 13, with over a hundred meteors falling every hour. “It’s ...

The article details observational opportunities for deep-sky objects including the North America Nebula (NGC 7000) and Pelican Nebula (IC 5070) in Cygnus, and the Christmas Tree Cluster (NGC 2264) in ...

The direction, distance and motion of the comet through the sky during its closest approach could have made it seem like it was hovering over Bethlehem when Jesus was said to have been born. When you ...

“After their audience with the king, [the wise men] set out,” reads chapter two of the Book of Matthew. “And behold, the star that they had seen at its rising preceded them, until it came and stopped ...

One of the last, but most spectacular meteor showers of the year, the Geminids, is set to dazzle stargazers overnight on Saturday, producing as many as 120 meteors an hour at their 2 a.m. ET peak on ...

Editor's note: This article was updated on Dec. 12 at 10:45 a.m. to indicate that the Geminids are peaking this weekend. Find some dark skies, and look up for shooting stars! Here's the best way to ...