As of Saturday, Aug. 16, the moon phase is Third Quarter (also known as the Last Quarter) and it is 46% lit up to us on Earth ...

This month, the lunar cycle will treat us to a relatively rare astronomical treat: a seasonal black moon. There’s just one ...

From Jupiter’s swirling storms to Neptune’s icy depths, planets across our solar system are orbited by a fascinating cast of ...

The waning Moon passes Jupiter, Venus, and Mercury before dawn, while Titan’s shadow transits Saturn in the sky this week.

On Monday night, Aug. 11, the moon will be in its waning gibbous phase at roughly 94% illuminated after this past weekend's ...

To see the event at its best, it’s better to wait for later in the night, when both the Moon and the Pleiades are visible ...

A Blood Moon or total lunar eclipse happens when the Sun, Earth and Moon are lined up. That means the Earth moves directly in ...

A final "gee-whiz" fact you can reveal to your friends is that what you are seeing in Monday's sky is an illusion of ...

The sturgeon moon was also a supermoon, meaning a full moon at the point in its elliptical orbit that's close to Earth.