On Saturday evening, February 1, a lovely crescent moon passes just to the left of Venus, which is now shining at the ...

Exciting February sky events include Venus at its brightest and closest to Earth, the moon occulting the Pleiades, and a ...

The Apollo moon program resulted in a legacy ... with the lunar surface horizontal and the Earth rising above it. Black and white photograph of Earthrise - taken by Apollo 8 commander, Frank ...

Another shortlisted in “Our Moon” is this fabulous image, above, of the moon as a crescent ... It’s a mosaic photograph made of two high-resolution images shot using a Newton Ares 405 ...

A stunning new photo captures the moon and Saturn engaged in a cosmic game of peek-a-boo. On Jan. 4, Saturn briefly hid behind the crescent moon ... together all night, rising and setting around ...

A remarkable sight will appear in the southwestern sky an hour after sunset Saturday evening when Venus appears very close to a thin crescent moon.

Venus will be near its maximum brightness, while the moon is both in its waxing crescent phase and at its monthly 'perigee'—its closest approach to Earth—10,500 miles nearer than average at ...

To date it has been a superb winter for viewing the queen of the planets, Venus. February marks the pinnacle of the evening visibility of Venus as it stands like a sequined showgirl nearly halfway ...

A stunning new photo captures the moon and Saturn engaged in a cosmic game of peek-a-boo. On Jan. 4, Saturn briefly hid behind the crescent moon, escaping the view of skywatchers in Europe, Africa, ...