Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. How many bright stars and constellations can you find in the ...

Humanity has spent literal millenia looking toward the night skies, tracking the stars that blazed against the darkness and finding images — constellations — out of the patterns they saw there. If you ...

This photo features the bright, pentagonal constellation Auriga the Charioteer, which is visible in the northeastern sky at nightfall in early January. It's one of 88 constellations in the National ...

Constellations are funny things, and beginner stargazers have so many misconceptions about them. Some novices believe constellations are fanciful pictures in the sky and may wonder why they can never ...