The lunar terminator, the sunset/sunrise line that sweeps across the Moon’s surface as the Moon orbits Earth, travels at a rate of 9.6 mph (15.4 km/h) along our satellite’s equator. Taking the average ...

Binoculars are clearly the greatest invention ever bestowed upon the naturalists of the world. Before binoculars, our knowledge of many birds was vague to nonexistent. Now anyone can pluck distant ...

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The summer Milky Way is one of the many things you get to enjoy if you are lucky enough to live in the Four Corners. From most big cities you might never get the chance to see it. On more than one ...

Go outside right now. What’s the farthest thing you can see? A tree? A bird? What about the Moon? It’s 250,000 miles away. The Sun is 400 times farther than that, at nearly 100 million miles (but ...

Whether you’re a novice stargazer or a veteran observer, every amateur astronomer should own binoculars. They’re the perfect grab-and-go instrument for an impromptu viewing session, especially when ...

“Cheating in baseball started when they threw out the first ball in the first game.”—Rogers Hornsby On May 8, 1955, the Kansas City Athletics played a doubleheader against the Cleveland Indians in old ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. I’m the world’s only “eclipse journalist.” For the very ...

A solid set of binoculars will drastically enhance any outdoor experience. Sure, they’re an essential piece of equipment for ...

With an explosion in recent years of invasive animals such as wild hogs, coyotes, armadillos, and more, hunting at night with thermal binoculars or a thermal scope has never been more popular—and ...

Spring means it’s time to look up into our night sky and find one of the oldest objects in our galaxy: the M3 Cluster. NASA and other sky experts call this group of ancient stars “a truly distant ...