Along the lunar orbital path, the point of closest proximity is known as perigee, which is when the moon is, on average, ...

Catch some shooting stars, get in a glimpse of the fading Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, and see Venus mingle with Antares in the ...

The ideal day to view the Orionid meteor shower should be Sunday. Its peak activity is expected on Monday morning, according ...

The best comet of the year is starting to fade in brightness, but it’s still an easy naked-eye object in the evening sky.

The name Hunter's Moon is derived from Native American, European and colonial sources. Look for it tonight -- and you can see ...

Anyone who is capable of seeing the moon (or the sun) near the horizon has experienced this effect. The moon looks enormous there, far larger than it does when it’s overhead. I’m an astronomer ...

Moonrise is near 4 p.m. EDT for several days around the full Moon, so you can see the Beaver Moon sailing across the evening sky from anywhere with clear evening weather. To get the best view of ...

The Old Farmer’s Almanac, which first began publishing the names of the full moons in the 1930s, states that the full moon ...

We’ve got a cosmic mystery on our hands. No one’s ever confirmed the existence of an ‘exomoon,’ which is a moon outside our ...

The sky will once again be bright with moonlight as the Hunter's Moon rises this week. And this one will be the biggest of 2024. The sky will once again be bright with moonlight as the Hunter's ...

Experience October's stunning Hunter's Moon supermoon on October 17. The moon will appear larger and brighter than usual.

"When the moon is at or near its closest point to Earth at the ... and will cast up to 25 shooting stars per hour in the night sky.