Venus reaches its highest altitude above the eastern horizon in 2025 on Aug. 1. Venus will reach its highest altitude in the ...

A.M. Discover its fascinating history and names. Explore how the Sturgeon fish is connected with the nickname of this full ...

Venus-Jupiter Conjunction and Meteor Mojo Venus and Jupiter shine together in a rare, close morning conjunction this August.

August brings Saturn and Neptune together, offers two shadow transits of Titan, and sees a conjunction of Venus and Jupiter.

Moon phases reveal the passage of time in the night sky. Some nights when we look up at the moon, it is full and bright; sometimes it is just a sliver of silvery light. These changes in appearance ...

Think of the phases labeled "new moon," "first quarter," "full moon," and "third quarter" as the numbers 12, 9, 6, and 3 on a clock, respectively. (For those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, the ...

Look to the east before sunrise on June 22 to catch the delicate form of the crescent moon shining with Venus alongside the Pleiades star cluster. Stargazers in the U.S. can find the cosmic trio ...

The phases of the moon are actually just a result of our perception of the moon's half-illuminated surface. When the moon does pass through Earth's shadow the result is a lunar eclipse.

Here’s how it works. Venus and the moon will shin near each other in the west-southwest sky on the evening of Oct. 5, 2024. (Image credit: Chris Vaughan/Starry Night) ...

The full moon is a celebrity among the moon phases. People stop and marvel at the big, beautiful, bright ball in the sky, no matter how many times they've seen it.

For millennia, Venus has graced our skies as the brilliant "Morning Star" or "Evening Star," its dazzling presence inspiring ...

July's first quarter moon in Libra takes on a potent theme of balance and companionship, as this Air sign is one of harmony ...