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 northern hemisphere).

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

Waning gibbous: More than half of the moon's ... You can see more about the full moons of 2024, in Space.com's Full Moon Calendar. Our night sky guide has a list of events for skywatching this ...

Understand the moon phases and you can wager a pretty good guess for when the next full moon is no matter where we are in the ...

The 'full moon' phase is as close as we come to seeing the sun's illumination of the entire day side of the moon. In 2025, ...

Sunrise: 7:18 A.M. Sunset: 4:38 P.M. Moonrise: 10:19 P.M. Moonset: 11:11 A.M. Moon Phase: Waning gibbous (70%) Sky This Week is brought to you in part by Celestron. The post The Sky This Week from ...

The dwarf planet 1 Ceres is in conjunction with the Sun at 5 P.M. EST today. While this means we can't see Ceres for now, we ...

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 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 ...