The moon reaches its farthest point from Earth tonight, known as apogee, making it appear ever so slightly smaller in the ...

This is because a brighter background of the sky reduces the ... 7:54 P.M. Moonset: 7:58 A.M. Moon Phase: Waning gibbous (95%) *Times for sunrise, sunset, moonrise, and moonset are given in ...

Mighty Jupiter stands high in the east at sunset, dominating the stars of Taurus the Bull as they begin to appear in the ...

When they do, we have a lunar eclipse as Earth's shadow crosses the moon's face. Waning gibbous: More than half of the moon's face appears to be getting sunlight, but the amount is decreasing.

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

There's more snow expected in February, a snow moon, that is. The second full moon of the year will reach its peak on Wednesday at 8:53 p.m. EDT, according to Space.com. Given the amount of ...

waxing gibbous moon, full moon, waning gibbous moon, last quarter moon, waning crescent moon. The 'full moon' phase is as close as we come to seeing the sun's illumination of the entire day side ...

waxing gibbous, Full Moon, waning gibbous, Last Quarter, and waning crescent. A cycle starting from one Full Moon to its next counterpart, termed the synodic month or lunar month, lasts about 29.5 ...

Here are the dates for the full moons in 2025. The next full moon will be on Friday, March 14, 2025. It will officially reach its full moon phase at 2:55 a.m. EDT (0755 GMT) but local moonrise ...

It is a Japanese-led commercial mission. Astronauts won't be walking on the moon until 2027, but you’ll see a lot of rockets heading there this year, part of an ambitious series of uncrewed ...

January 2025 was the hottest on record, reaching a whole 1.7 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. If many climate watchers expected the world to cool slightly this year, thanks to the natural ...

A private U.S. spacecraft bound for the moon has captured stunning images of Earth one week into its flight. It carries experiments for NASA, part of the space agency's effort to return astronauts ...