Jupiter reaches a stunning opposition, Mars is brilliant, Saturn and Venus light the evening sky, and Mercury rises before ...

(CNN) — NASA’s Artemis program, which aims to return astronauts to the moon this decade amid a renewed international push for lunar exploration, is facing more delays. The agency said Thursday ...

The two new moons in December are known as a black moon. While a black moon has been used to describe the third new moon in a season of four new moons and occasions when there are no new moons in ...

A black moon is a quirk of the calendar. However, there are several definitions. When there is no new moon in a month — only possible in February — it can be called a black moon. The same name ...

To wrap the year, this month also has two new moons in one calendar month, a phenomenon that typically happens only once every two to three years and is called a “Black Moon,” according to ...

This weekend, skywatchers in 13 states will experience a celestial rarity—a "black moon." The phenomenon, occurring on Saturday, November 30, will happen only in Western time zones of the United ...

A “black moon” is coming, and Oregonians will get to experience it before much of the rest of the world. Not an official astronomical term, a black moon refers to the second new moon in a ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Planet Earth is parting company with an asteroid that’s been tagging along as a “mini moon” for the past two months. The harmless space rock will peel away on ...

When astronomy fans look to the sky this week, they'll get to see November's Beaver full moon, the last of 2024's four consecutive supermoons. The 2024 series of supermoons started in August with ...

In 1874, James Nasmyth and James Carpenter published a remarkable book: The Moon: Considered as a Planet, a World, and a Satellite. Lavishly illustrated with spectacular images of lunar features ...