The moon and Jupiter will meet Wednesday night in the constellation Aries.Look west just after sunset, which is around 8 p.m. By that time, the duo will be going down after passing the highest point ...

During the morning hours of Sunday, Sept. 22, skywatchers across much of the western US will be able to watch as a waning gibbous moon — 75 percent illuminated by the sun — crosses in front of ...

If the weather is clear where you live on Tuesday evening (Dec. 17), look low above the east-northeast horizon at around 8:00 p.m. local standard time and you'll see the waning gibbous moon, 89% ...

Look to the western sky in the hours preceding dawn on Nov. 6 to see the moon shine close to the constellation Taurus and the stars of the Pleiades open cluster. The 94%-lit moon will appear roughly ...

Stargazers have been spoiled so far in 2025 as six of the planets in our solar system have "paraded" across the night sky. Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn have all been visible to the naked eye, ...

The International Space Station is nowhere close to the moon, which is about 1,000 times farther away from Earth. But a new snapshot from an accomplished space photographer makes it look as though the ...

NASA’s Orion space capsule is not a place you would describe as “roomy.” The not-quite-cone-shaped spacecraft is about 12 feet across on the inside, and, aside from the center that slants up toward a ...

The Apollo program conjures images of Neil Armstrong's first steps on the moon and the massive team effort involved in getting him there. But a fundamental decision that led to the successful lunar ...

The moon will meet up with the Seven Sisters, the Pleiades star cluster, on Friday (Feb. 16), also displaying a rare optical feature on its surface that can be seen with telescopes. The ...