Wednesday night, the space between Earth and the Moon will shrink, and all of us insignificant Earthlings will be treated to a celestial phenomenon that won’t happen again for more than a decade ...

#4. Here's a two for the price of one: The Moon takes 27.3 days to orbit Earth once, but 29.5 days to go from New Moon back to New Moon. The reason these two periods are different is because, at ...

This sky map shows the night sky in the wee hours of March 1 (Friday) at 1 a.m., when the moon and the bright star Spica will be closest together.

Saturday night is the 12th annual “International Observe the Moon Night” (InOMN) and there are plenty of virtual and in-person events around the DMV.

“A pretty cool night,” Hemberger wrote in an e-mail to KSHB 41. A little further west near Cedar Creek in Olathe, viewer Scott Malone took the opportunity to showcase the moon against a field ...

The Moon’s average distance from Earth is 238,000 miles (383,000 kilometers). It can be as far away as 252,724 miles (406,720 kilometers) or as near as 221,439 miles (356,372 kilometers).