On the evening of Oct. 9, a waning gibbous moon visits the famous Pleiades Star Cluster  — the Seven Sisters  — in Taurus.
Tonight (Jan. 13), bright Mars will disappear behind the full Wolf Moon for several hours before reappearing on the other side. It's the only lunar occultation of Mars visible from the U.S. this year.
And speaking of the break of dawn, that happens nowadays at around 5:15 a.m. local daylight time. And that's the time for ...
Just when you thought things couldn’t get any weirder, a rare black moon is set to rise this weekend. It’s expected in the early hours of Saturday morning, at around 2:06 a.m. EDT, according to the ...
If you were up early enough on Friday, Sept. 19, you may have noticed the bright star shining next to the crescent moon in the morning sky. Except it wasn't a star, it was the planet Venus. And it was ...
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Roll out the cosmic welcome mat for our solar system’s newest resident: a never-before-seen moon orbiting Uranus. A team of astronomers announced Tuesday that a new satellite measuring roughly 90 ...