Even to a casual viewer, the waxing gibbous moon of Feb. 7 will appear quite unusual, climbing so very high in the sky.

The dwarf planet 1 Ceres is in conjunction with the Sun at 5 P.M. EST today. While this means we can't see Ceres for now, we ...

Around 3 A.M. this morning, the pair is high in the southern sky. By an hour before sunrise, the Moon appears to hang just below the blue-white star as they hover about 30° high in the southwest.

Unsurprisingly, the name of February's full moon became known as the snow moon since it rises in one of the snowiest months, on average, in the United States. Because bad weather and heavy snows made ...

The Moon passes 0.3° south of the bright red giant star Antares at 7 P.M. EST. However, the pair isn’t visible this evening, as they’ll rise in the early-morning sky, so we’ll feature them ...

Just above the moon will be Mars, shining with a steady orange glow. Both the moon and Mars will be in the Gemini ...

February’s typically cold, snowy weather earned it the 'Snow Moon' nickname. Storm Moon and hunger Moon are other common ...

This morning, rising in the east about three hours before sunrise will be a 26%-lit waning crescent moon barely a third of a degree from Antares, the “Heart of the Scorpion” in the ...

The changing declination also defines the daily arc that the sun takes across the sky, thereby accounting for the length of daylight. Want to see the moon up ... minutes after sunrise on March ...