The two showers share similar names because, when seen in the night sky, they appear to originate from different points in ...

The Beaver Moon, the last supermoon of the year, will share the celestial stage with the dazzling Leonid meteor shower.

Because of this rapid movement, when the sun sets on the following (Tuesday) evening, the configuration between Venus and the moon will have radically changed. In fact, the moon – whose illuminated ...

Called “Crescent ... up image of Mare Crisium, a lunar sea in the moon’s Crisium basin, just northeast of Mare Tranquillitatis where Apollo 11 landed on July 20, 1969. Called “From Light ...

The new moon occurs on Nov. 1, and three days later the moon will make a close pass to Venus in the evening sky.

Meanwhile, the now 9%-lit waning crescent Moon will be ... then look straight up and you’ll see two bright stars close together. The “twins” of Gemini, Pollux (34 light years distant ...

The Moon does not produce its own light. We can see the Moon because ... the Moon’s phases from Earth as different shapes. Waxing crescent Moon – less than half of the visible surface is ...