The moon's ascending node (the point in the sky where its orbit crosses the ecliptic from south to north) is moving westward ...

I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the ...

Understand the moon phases and you can wager a pretty good guess for when the next full moon is just by looking up.

Welcome to this month’s edition of “What’s up in the sky?” February has a nice lineup of planets and some eye-catching ...

The second full moon of the year − appropriately called the snow moon − will reach its peak Wednesday evening.

Around midnight tonight in the east, a 55%-lit waning gibbous moon will be just a tenth of a ... to the naked eye in the post-sunset night sky. Look south anytime after dark, and you'll see ...

Just above the moon will be Mars, shining with a steady orange glow. Both the moon and Mars will be in the Gemini ...

Tonight, the evening sky holds a different conjunction ... 6:52 P.M. Moonset: 7:37 A.M. Moon Phase: Waning gibbous (99%) Eunomia passes near the 6th-magnitude star cluster NGC 1746 this month ...

Just to the Moon’s upper right in the evening sky is Mars. At magnitude ... First Quarter, waxing gibbous, Full Moon, waning gibbous, Last Quarter, and waning crescent. A cycle starting ...

Even to a casual viewer, the waxing gibbous moon of Friday, Feb. 7 will appear unusual. As it crosses the meridian shortly after 8 p.m. local standard time, it will climb so very high in the sky ...

Even to a casual viewer, the waxing gibbous moon of Friday, Feb. 7 will appear unusual. As it crosses the meridian shortly after 8 p.m. local standard time, it will climb so very high in the sky that ...