The moon's ascending node (the point in the sky where its orbit crosses the ecliptic from south to north) is moving westward ...

Do people (or animals) get crazy? Commit more crimes? The Moon always shows us the same face, but there’s only one instant ...

Because the Moon is over a quarter the diameter of Earth, the Earth-Moon system is often cited as the pairing in our Solar ...

An asteroid that orbited near Earth for a few months as a mini-moon may be a chunk of the moon that was blasted off by an ...

February's full Snow Moon will have a royal companion as it rises alongside Regulus, a star nicknamed "Heart of the Lion", ...

Chicago will soon have one of its best opportunities in decades to experience a total lunar eclipse. Come the night of March ...

The snow moon will reach peak illumination on Feb. 12 at 6:53 a.m. ET/7:53 a.m. CT. Other names linked to February's full ...

The new moon of January will be at 7:36 a.m. Eastern Time on Jan. 29, according to the U.S. Naval Observatory, and two days ...

A moon of Earth's own. While 2024 PT5 never officially joined Earth's orbit, the almost-moon still became a topic of interest ...

A chunk of space rock that visited near Earth's orbit last year was widely called a "mini-moon," a nickname that was more ...

A new moon occurs when the moon is directly between Earth and the sun, with its shadowed side pointing towards us. You can see a new moon when it crosses the face of the sun during a solar eclipse.

In this article, I'll delve into the Moon's phases, including why they occur and how they impact life on Earth. The Sun always lights up one half of our Moon. However, that's not always the half we ...