This is the last chance to catch the pair in conjunction this year—with Venus set to be unusually bright in the night sky.

Last year, a pair of researchers claimed that the shockwaves of the shutdown could be felt as far as the moon, causing a ...

There will also be two total lunar eclipses that occur during the March and September full moon events. A lunar eclipse, ...

Understand the moon phases and you can wager a pretty good guess for when the next full moon is just by looking up.

A remarkable sight will appear in the southwestern sky an hour after sunset Saturday evening when Venus appears very close to a thin crescent moon.

I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also applies to northern hemisphere mid-northern ...

Californians watching the sky in February have the chance to view a parade of planets and a snow moon. The planetary ...

This thin sliver is called the waxing crescent. A week after the new moon, the moon is 90 degrees away from the sun in the sky and is half-illuminated from our point of view — what we call first ...

What is the moon phase today? Today, Feb. 9, 2025, the moon is 11 days old, in the Waxing Gibbous phase of its lunar cycle. It is 91% illuminated. Moon phases reveal the passage of time in the ...

A crescent moon will be part of a planetary parade featuring six planets after sunset on Feb. 3: Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Venus ...