Retrogrades get a bad reputation in astrology for causing chaos and confusion. At any given time—there can be multiple planets in the sky at once experiencing retrograde motion. When planets take a ...

Jupiter's retrograde motion through Punarvasu Nakshatra from January 30th to April 20th, 2026, prompts a return to unfinished ...

Planets turn retrograde when they appear to be moving backwards from our vantage point on Earth. When a particular planet goes retrograde, the themes of that planet will be impacted. Retrogrades get a ...

What happens when a planet defies every expectation of how worlds are supposed to form and move? In the nu Octantis system, astronomers have confirmed the existence of a planet that orbits in the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. When is Mercury retrograde? It starts today, and if you ...

The summer of 2024 will be a wild ride, astrologically speaking — and for more reasons than just the rare super blue moon that rose in August. A total of five planets are going retrograde between May ...

Retrograde mean motion resonances occur when orbiting bodies, moving in directions opposite to the dominant sense of motion, experience periodic gravitational interactions that can stabilise their ...

Three to four times a year, the planet Mercury appears to travel backward across the sky. The journey during these periods when Mercury is in apparent retrograde motion is known as “Mercury retrograde ...

For generations, Jupiter has been shorthand for a straightforward idea: the biggest planet in the Solar System, a gas giant ...

Venus, our planet of love, attachment, aesthetics and assets, is going retrograde on March 1st. The first part (and the bulk) of the retrograde will go down, or back, as it were, in the cardinal hell ...