The Lakers entered the offseason wanting to add depth to their roster.  They wanted to get more athletic. And they wanted to ...

On June 17, in the year 2 B.C.E, a significant planetary conjunction occurred involving Venus and Jupiter. From Earth’s perspective, these two bright planets appeared to draw so close that they would ...

The bright planets will appear within a pinkie width of each other this June—their closest alignment until 2028. Jupiter and Venus appear close to one another above the alpine mountains in what is ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Skywatchers are already out shortly after sunset observing ...

Faculty members overwhelmingly approved a limit on the number of top grades they can give to about a fifth of their undergraduate classes. By Mark Arsenault Faculty members at Harvard University voted ...

Coloradans who look up at the night sky this Earth Day could catch a glimpse of two celestial phenomena. Colorado astronomy guide Mark Laurin said that the holiday on Wednesday, April 22, will be ...

Harvard University has been trying to cut back how many A grades professors give. Now, 53 percent of grades are A’s, down from 60 percent. By Mark Arsenault It used to be unusual for a Harvard student ...

We all learned about conjunctions in grade school, a memory likely filed away with other early school memories, such as how to do long division and reciting multiplication tables through the number 12 ...

Saturn and the moon will appear close together in the night sky in an event known as a conjunction. The celestial event will be visible for one night on Friday, Jan. 23, 2026, after sunset. Viewers in ...

More Harvard College students than ever are passing their classes with flying colors, but the College’s evaluation system is “failing to perform the key functions of grading,” according to a report ...

A conjunction is an astronomical event in which at least two planets – or, in this case, other celestial bodies – appear to our vantage from Earth to be close together in the sky. The trio of ...