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.

The moon reached its peak brightness at 8:53 a.m. EST (1353 GMT) on Feb. 12, but local moonrise and moonset times will depend ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...