The half-lit lunar disk will rise alongside the ringed giant Saturn and dimmer Neptune in the early morning hours of June 19, ...

Keep an eye out for June’s full strawberry moon, which will appear low in the Northern Hemisphere, as well as the Milky Way ...

The crash would have melted part of our world and destroyed our planet's atmosphere, but the collision created the material that eventually formed the moon. Some astronomers have different ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages ... But if you went to Venus, that wouldn’t be the case. Not every planet ...

AstroBob says to look to the sky Friday evening to see the full Beaver Moon, also known as the Freezing ... As the sun sets, the shadow of the planet moves upwards and into the atmosphere.

But is our moon actually a planet? The answer is technically no — at least according to NASA and the International Astronomical Union (IAU), an important global authority in astronomy.

This week it’s worth looking to the eastern horizon in the early hours to watch something spectacular—the waning crescent Moon take turns to visit the planets. After passing by Saturn last ...

This week on Star Watch we are talking about the moon and some planets that you can see in the night sky this weekend. Through this weekend the moon will be looking more and more full as we ...

Jupiter and Venus will appear very close together in the night sky on Wednesday, with the two planets set to pass each ... about the diameter of a full moon, said Robert Massey, deputy executive ...

Here’s how it works. Starting this week, you can watch five planets in the evening sky as a crescent moon rises higher each night. From Thursday, March 23 through Thursday, March 30, it will be ...

But that’s not all. Chicagoans will also likely get to witness a lunar occultation of Mars and a parade of planets. A lunar occultation occurs when the moon passes in front of an object ...