July 2025's full Moon will loom low and large in UK skies tonight. Nicknamed the Buck Moon, this cosmic event will be one of the lowest-lying full Moon's of the year and the farthest from the Sun. The Buck Moon will sit so close to the horizon that it will appear much bigger than usual, in a phenomenon known as the 'Moon illusion'.

During the course of a 13-second exposure, the International Space Station makes a trail of light in the sky as the station appears to pass among the stars of the Milky Way, next to the bright planet Jupiter. At the time this photo was taken, six people were living and working aboard the space station, while NASA’s Juno spacecraft orbited Jupiter.

The bright morning star Venus, moving quickly through Taurus, hangs in the predawn sky below the Seven Sisters open cluster.

Japan’s Himawari weather satellites, designed to watch Earth, have quietly delivered a decade of infrared snapshots of Venus. By stitching 437 images together, scientists tracked daily thermal tides and shifting planetary waves in the planet’s cloud tops,

The next new moon will fall at around 11:02 p.m. ET on Tuesday, May 27. Manhattanhenge, a biannual event in Manhattan, New York, will occur at around 8:13 p.m. ET on Wednesday, May 28. Venus will ...