The zodiacal light shines in the evening as the Moon reaches Last Quarter and skims past Spica and Antares in the sky this ...

The moon's ascending node (the point in the sky where its orbit crosses the ecliptic from south to north) is moving westward ...

The space station and one other Easter egg — the site of NASA's next human moon landing — are hidden in this lucky photo.

A full moon happens when the moon is directly opposite the sun from our perspective on Earth, fully illuminated by sunlight.

Just above the moon will be Mars, shining with a steady orange glow. Both the moon and Mars will be in the Gemini ...

The Earth's Grand Canyon took millions of years to carve, but the moon's grand canyons took about ten minutes.

Exciting February sky events include Venus at its brightest and closest to Earth, the moon occulting the Pleiades, and a ...

Venus, Jupiter, and Mars dominate the sky. Catch your last views of Saturn as early in the month, the Moon passes in front of ...

In the heart of wintertime, when springtime flowers have yet to bloom and the sky remains gray one day after the next, it can ...

The so-called snow moon of 2025 will be glowing brightly in the winter sky this week, officially reaching its fullest phase at 8:54 a.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 12. The moon will appear 99% full ...

Even to a casual viewer, the waxing gibbous moon of Friday, Feb. 7 will appear unusual. As it crosses the meridian shortly after 8 p.m. local standard time, it will climb so very high in the sky ...

Even to a casual viewer, the waxing gibbous moon of Friday, Feb. 7 will appear unusual. As it crosses the meridian shortly after 8 p.m. local standard time, it will climb so very high in the sky that ...