These changes in appearance are the phases of the moon. As the moon orbits Earth, it cycles through eight distinct phases. The four primary phases of the moon (new moon, first quarter, full moon ...

The small near-Earth asteroid 2024 PT5 has been creating a buzz among researchers. Discovered last year with the help of a ...

I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the ...

Thanks to the Moon’s orbit around Earth, the angle of sunlight hitting the lunar surface and being reflected back to our planet changes. That creates different lunar phases. The next Full Moon ...

The phases exist because of how the moon orbits Earth. "Sunlight illuminates half the Earth and half the moon at all times," NASA says in an explainer. "But as the moon orbits around the Earth ...

The best views of the September 2025 total lunar eclipse will be in Asia and western Australia. According to Time and Date, a ...

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The Snow Moon, the second full moon of 2025, will light up Michigan skies in mid-February 2025. Here's what to know.

For a brief, but exciting, time last year, Earth had two moons. A small asteroid lingered close to our planet in its orbit ...

January's Wolf Moon was the highest hanging moon of 2025 in the Northern Hemisphere and stays in the sky longer than other ...

Scientists think a small rock discovered near Earth last August was hurled into space by an ancient impact on the lunar surface.

You may see a round, red moon on the day whose digits, 3/14, look like an approximation of the mathematical constant related ...