Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Exactly 400 days from today, on Saturday, Feb. 6, 2027, ...

With major eclipses, brilliant supermoons, and lineups of five or more planets, 2026 offers something awe-inspiring in every season. Here’s what to watch for. Solar prominences and their associated ...

Earth is about to see three total solar eclipses in just under two years, with each successive path of totality moving west to east across the globe. Here's everything you need to know to plan an ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. When is the next total solar eclipse? On Aug. 12, 2026, the ...

Meteor showers. Supermoons. Planetary alignments. Black moons. The Milky Way. The northern lights. Partial solar eclipses. "Pinwheels" in the sky. The year 2025 was a great one for astronomy, and 2026 ...

The Scenic Eclipse will help ring in 2026, live from Antarctica. The Scenic Group ship will be featured during ABC News' New Year's Eve broadcast. It will be the first time that ABC will have New Year ...

The upcoming year will offer a blood-red moon, spectacular meteor showers and the first glimpse of the sun’s corona since April 2024 Look up throughout the year to catch a wide array of astronomical ...

The next total solar eclipse occurs August 12, 2026. Totality lasts up to two minutes, the first for mainland Europe since 1999. The longest eclipse in 100 years will be August 2, 2027, lasting six ...

Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026, is when the full Wolf Moon is its brightest. According to timeanddate.com, the peak will be at 4:02 a.m. in Mississippi. (All times are Central.) This one will be a supermoon, ...

On Feb. 17, 2026, an annular solar eclipse will be visible from a remote part of Antarctica, forming a "ring of fire" for up to 2 minutes, 20 seconds as 96% of the sun's center is eclipsed by the moon ...

While the Pacific Northwest continues a long drought of total solar eclipses, stargazers will still have a lot to enjoy in the night sky this year. The 2026 astronomical events calendar is loaded with ...