Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Capture the Atlas has unveiled the eighth edition of ...

You'll likely be in the high latitudes of the Arctic: perhaps Alaska or Canada, Greenland or Iceland, maybe Scandinavia. At first they appear as a faint smear of color, something you could mistake for ...

Nearly two dozen states could catch a glimpse of the northern lights on Nov. 12, one day after the aurora borealis lit up skies across the U.S. But what exactly are the northern lights? And what do ...