Sunday, July 11, 2021: A crescent Moon with Venus and Mars The Moon orbits Earth on more-or-less the same orbital plane as that of the Solar System, so it often appears in the night sky close to a ...

Since the plane of the moon’s orbit is titled slightly (by 5.1 degrees) from the plane of the Earth and sun, it usually misses the sun and there is no eclipse.

Stargazers in the U.S. will find the slender form of the crescent moon roughly 20 degrees above the western horizon right at ...

Do you have a favorite phase of the moon? Romantics will almost certainly be drawn to the full moon, but during its 29.5-day cycle, going from one new moon to the next, our satellite offers up ...

NASA's Artemis 1 mission's Orion spacecraft captured amazing views of the Earthset as the moon passed in front of it on ...

But be really careful using them as the Sun rises—you must not look at the Sun through any optical equipment. Wednesday, March 10, 2021: Three planets align with a crescent Moon. Jamie carter ...

Tilman Riemenschneider’s sculpture ‘Virgin and Child on the Crescent Moon’ (c. 1521-1522) at the Dumbarton Oaks Museum depicts an image drawn from the Book of Revelation symbolizing the ...