No one expected these glittering bits among the gray lunar dust back then. The beads, smaller than grains of sand, formed ...

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

Each month it will feature the best the sky has to offer stargazers regarding the moon, planets and stars. Space-related ... them and binoculars will be a big help in spotting them.

How to Spot the Smiley Face in the Night Sky The spectacle begins about 45 minutes after sunset when the sky grows dark enough for stars to become visible. In the western horizon, the slender crescent ...

Earth and space mingle in stunning ways for the 2025 Milky Way Photographer of the Year contest. From the “geological masterpiece” of Coyote Buttes, Utah to the sandstone terrain of desolate Ennedi, ...

May 10: The almost full moon rises with the star Spica above it and they keep each other ... About Space” at Shenandoah National Park’s Big Meadows and Skyland. I hope you can join me.

On Saturday evening (May 3), as the sky darkens, check out the rather wide (45-percent illuminated) waxing crescent moon ... the star cluster that we had mentioned earlier. Cancer's big star ...

“Above the Moon, Venus will be bright and easily visible ... from which the shooting stars appear to originate. Meteor showers, or shooting stars, are caused when pieces of debris, known ...

Above and to the left of the Pink Moon on Saturday will be a bright star called Spica, which lies in the constellation Virgo. It is the 16th brightest star in the whole night sky, giving off ...

Sky watchers across the globe were treated to a spectacular partial solar eclipse this weekend when the Moon moved between ... its famous ‘belt' of three stars. Above the belt is a bright ...

Even small stars that orbit big stars would be moons! Clearly we’re running into trouble trying to hang the word moon on these objects. There’s also the problem that the arguments for what ...

There’s a lot to be said for a big, bold ... The Blood Worm Moon will reach its peak illumination on Friday, March 14, at 2:55 a.m. ET, though it will look just as stunning as it rises above the ...