The new moon of January will be at 7:36 a.m. Eastern Time on Jan. 29, according to the U.S. Naval Observatory, and two days ...

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

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John Wheeler is Chief Meteorologist for WDAY, a position he has had since May of 1985. Wheeler grew up in the South, in ...

Because its orbit around the sun closely matches Earth's, astronomers determined that the "mini-moon" likely originated from nearby in our solar system. Now, research published this month in the ...

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A chunk of space rock that visited near Earth's orbit last year was widely referred to as a "mini-moon." Turns out, the lunar-inspired moniker may have been more accurate than we realized.