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

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

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost moon lander reached lunar orbit on Thursday (Feb. 13) and snapped some photos to commemorate ...

Mars, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn should be visible to the naked eye, but with a telescope you can spot Neptune and Uranus.

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

Moon phases reveal the passage of time in the night sky. Some nights when we look up ... much of the moon's disk is illuminated from our perspective. New moon: The moon is between Earth and ...

On the night of the full moon, its illumination can obscure as much as a quarter of the sky making it harder to ... busy time of year from an astronomy perspective. A few days earlier (on the ...

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 ...

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

Take advantage of a special 6-7 planet alignment from Earth's perspective. Planets 'line up' in the skies over California in ...

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 ...