This month's night sky is filled with close-range meteors, swirling nebulas, and prime stargazing conditions. Here’s when you ...

A crescent moon will appear alongside the bright stars Castor and Pollox to form a lopsided grin in the night sky on May 29.

The next full moon, the Strawberry Moon, will light up Michigan skies in mid-June. Here's a look at what to know.

Today's new moon is a supermoon. This invisible moment of the lunar cycle was captured by NASA's PUNCH mission for the first ...

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The last time the full moon was this low was 18.6 years ago, in what's known as a major lunar standstill. It won't happen again until 2043.

China has fired a precision laser across 80,778 miles (130,000 km) of space in broad daylight, bounced it off a satellite circling the Moon, and measured the return, marking the world’s first ...

Discover interesting facts about how the moon formed, what it's made out of, and the many missions humans have launched to ...

Our satellite is a little off-balance. GRAIL data show a mass asymmetry of a few percent between its near and far sides.

The Moon will pass 4° north of Venus at 8 P.M. EDT tonight. Sunrise: 5:38 A.M. Sunset: 8:16 P.M. Moonrise: 3:12 A.M. Moonset: ...

The puzzling behavior of Titan's atmosphere has been revealed. The team has shown that the thick, hazy atmosphere of Saturn's largest moon doesn't spin in line with its surface, but instead wobbles ...

For North Americans, this is an eye-catching sight, visible even from brightly lit cities.