The phenomenon of a Full Moon arises ... yesterday evening, the Moon is now about 5° southeast of the star. The two stand together in a rich region of the Milky Way along the galactic plane ...

Photographer extraordinaire Don Pettit is about to return to Earth following a seven-month stay aboard the space station. Take a moment to enjoy his best work.

Even the galaxy's central supermassive black hole, which at nine billion solar masses is more than 2,000 times more massive than the Milky Way's central black hole ... roughly one-third the diameter ...

Astronomers have discovered the most distant and thus earliest spiral galaxy ever seen, using the James Webb Space Telescope ...

Saturday night's full moon is special in more ways than one. Observers will witness both a micromoon and a pink moon at the same time Saturday night. The micromoon refers to a full moon that rises ...

An international team has discovered the most distant spiral galaxy candidate known to date. This ultra-massive system existed just one billion years after the Big Bang and already shows a remarkably ...

This micromoon will appear about 6% smaller than the average full ... Australia, parts of eastern South America, Alaska and Antarctica on September 7 and 8. A lunar eclipse, which causes the moon ...

Sharp-eyed lunar lovers may notice April’s full ... Asia, Australia, parts of eastern South America, Alaska and Antarctica on September 7 and 8. A lunar eclipse, which causes the moon to look ...

Here are the dates for the full moons in 2025. The next full moon will be on Monday, May 12. It will officially reach its full moon phase at 12:56 p.m. EST (1656 GMT), but local moonrise times ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered Zhúlóng, a candidate for the most distant spiral galaxy in the universe. The ...

The full moon has been a source of fascination, from precipitating werewolf transformations to controlling the tides. Across the globe, it has been an important part of cultural and spiritual ...

Sometime between about 9:00 p.m. and 1:00 a.m. EST (depending on where you were in North America), the full "Wolf Moon" drifted across Mars, briefly swallowing the Red Planet from the sky.