A spectacular “planet parade” (also called an alignment) featuring six planets is visible during August. Here’s when and ...

The moon goes through a repeating cycle of phases each month, changing what we see every night. This is called the lunar ...

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

The Perseid meteor shower 2025 peaked Aug. 12-13, delighting skywatchers worldwide. The Perseid meteor shower peaked on Aug ...

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 ...

We’ve all been enjoying these bright full moons of summer, but a black moon is now on the rise. Not an official astronomical ...

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