A meteor shower, a planet sighting, and a full moon. Here's how to see all of space's eye-catching activity in July.

The crescent moon will appear "wafer thin" through the night of April 29 as it draws near to the large planet and will make its closest visual approach to Jupiter for the year as it passes over ...

Look for them around 10 p.m. local daylight time, roughly one-quarter up in the western sky. In addition to their closeness ...

On Sunday, April 27, the Moon will be about 221,900 miles from Earth when it reaches perigee, the closest distance in its elliptical orbit of our planet. According to NASA, this is about 17,000 ...

The crescent moon will appear "wafer thin" through the night of April 29 as it draws near to the large planet and will make its closest visual approach to Jupiter for the year as it passes over ...

Orion will make its closest approach to the moon just before 8 a.m. ET (5 a.m. PT). To watch the livestream, you can either head to NASA’s YouTube page for the event or use the video embedded ...

Mercury is the closest planet to the sun and the smallest planet in the solar system. ... Stargazing How to see Mercury, the moon and the Gemini twins pass close together in the night sky this week.

The waning gibbous Moon will make its apparent closest approach to the “red planet” on the night of Saturday, September 5, 2020 for North America (eastern sky) and in the early ore-dawn ...

This weekend, the moon will be absent from the night sky as it rises and sets with the sun, its shaded side facing our planet during the day. This is what's typically known as a new moon, and this ...

Typically, the moon orbits an average distance of about 238,855 miles (384,400 kilometers) from its host planet, but during this month’s supermoon, it will be just 222,095 miles (357,428 ...