As Venus approaches its inferior conjunction, astrophotographers have snapped some striking shots of the crescent planet ...

Around 600 million years ago, Earth was home to strange, soft-bodied sea creatures, but a powerful asteroid impact in what is ...

with the Earth visible as a small crescent in the background. The Earth dips behind the moon as the spacecraft travels in its lunar orbit, before it passes by the moon and the Earth once again ...

Venus has phases just like the moon. Before and after the conjunction, Venus looks like a thin crescent — though only telescopes can see it. Those looking for signs of the transition can watch Venus ...

But what unites all Muslims is the observance of the new crescent moon in the ninth month ... surface of the moon is brightly illuminated from Earth’s perspective. The invisible phase of the ...

Muslims worldwide will see the waxing crescent moon in the sky on Friday ... known as the ecliptic on Earth. They travel along it and eventually catch up with one another over time.