December is coming to an end with a "black moon" on Monday night, Dec. 30, but those hoping to see the phenomenon will be out of luck. That's because a black moon is the term for the second new ...

A night view of Mount Erek as the "Cold Moon" appears in the sky in Van, Turkiye on December 07, ... [+] 2022. (Photo by Ozkan Bilgin/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) The twelfth and final full mo ...

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The final full moon of 2024 will rise as far north as it ever does — a phenomenon that happens every 18.6 years called a "major lunar standstill." December's full moon, also known as the cold ...

Officially full at 4:01 a.m. EST this Sunday (Dec. 15), the full moon will be best seen rising in the east later that day at the time of moonrise where you are. It will be in the constellation ...

Mars has now risen to the rank of the fifth brightest object in the pre-midnight evening sky, rivaled only by the moon, Venus, Jupiter and the brightest of all stars, Sirius. If the weather is ...

Skywatchers looking for the last full moon of 2024 can look to the sky this weekend for a glimpse of the "cold moon," which will hit peak brightness just after 4 a.m. EST on Sunday morning.

But Earth isn't the only target; the moon is regularly bombarded with such meteors, and Daichi Fujii, the curator of the Hiratsuka City Museum in Japan, has captured some of the most recent ...

NASA is once again delaying its Artemis missions to the Moon. The US space agency announced on Friday it is now targeting an April 2026 launch for its Artemis II mission and mid-2027 for Artemis III.

In the UK's Whitley Bay, a shining waxing crescent Moon glows with Venus to the right Stargazers around the globe were treated to a stunning celestial scene on Friday as Venus appeared shining ...