When Earth is opposite Mars from the sun, it will appear full because you’re looking directly on the daylit side. But mitigating this is its far greater distance, plus the fact that Earth appears much ...

A small asteroid, called 2025 TP5, will safely fly by our planet Oct. 15 at about a quarter of the distance to the moon.

The moon, just hours past its last quarter phase, will rise above the east-northeastern horizon shortly before midnight local ...

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The next full Moon is on Wednesday, Nov. 5th. That night, the Moon rises at 4:47 p.m. EST. Here are the phases of the Moon ...

Super Cold Moon: the date of the last full moon of the year and the highest before 2042 In 2025, three Supermoons marked the ...

Find out what a supermoon really is, why it looks brighter and larger, and when the next one will light up the night sky.

Sir James Jeans, one of the world’s top mathematicians and an influential physicist and astronomer at the time, advanced his tidal hypothesis of planet formation in 1916. According to this theory, ...

The ISS, launched in pieces beginning in 1998, has served as a beacon of global cooperation among the United States, Europe, ...

On October 6, we had a full moon that was referred to as the Hunter’s Moon or the Blood Moon. The many stages of the moon have always fascinated me. Perhaps this is because I spent many nights sitting ...

Comet Lemmon will make its first appearance with comet SWAN after sunset while also remaining visible before dawn for Northern Hemisphere skywatchers.