On July 28, a rare skywatching event will bring the crescent moon and Mars together in the Western skies of Southern ...

A rare lunar occultation, fading crescent moon, and an interstellar visitor make for a memorable week of stargazing in ...

The slim crescent moon will pass the Pleiades star cluster tonight. The Pleiades is known as the 'Seven Sisters' but actually has more than 800 stars.

Ramadan commences when a small sliver of the moon, known in astronomical terms as the “waxing crescent,” emerges and becomes visible. And that’s true across the Islamic world.

Tuesday, May 23: 17%-illuminated waxing crescent moon close to Venus; Da Vinci glow is best seen with either the unaided eye or using any pair of stargazing binoculars or a good small telescope.

The Da Vinci glow isn’t in a museum. It’s in the sky. Here is what to look for and how to see the crescent moon lit up by Earthshine.

So, the moon had to travel that much more across the sky to catch up to Venus. Since the Moon appears to move across the sky at roughly 13-degrees per day, it needs three more days (13 x 3 = 39 ...

GET IT ON G E T I T O N BOGOTA, COLOMBIA – JULY 15: Venus (above) appears in the night sky near a crescent moon on July 15, 2018 in Bogota, Colombia. The conjunction of the planet Venus was seen ...