With the new moon darkening the skies, you’ll have a rare shot at spotting the Milky Way, deep-sky galaxies, and even the ...

As of Monday, Aug. 4, the moon phase is Waxing Gibbous. According to NASA's Daily Moon Observation, the moon will be 77% lit ...

A full “sturgeon” moon will peak soon over Kansas, and residents can also enjoy the peak of a popular meteor shower soon ...

It’s hard to beat a summer night beneath the stars, especially in August, when the shimmery Milky Way core is at its ...

Aug. 12-13 — Peak of the annual Perseid meteor shower. Perseids are fragments shed by comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle. Every August, ...

Waning Crescent in AriesThe Moon’s waning crescent in fiery Aries is giving strong “clean slate” energy — but with a bold ...

A trio of astronomical events will take place within a single week this month, including a well-known meteor shower.

What makes the Perseids great is the quantity of meteors, their showy quality and the August summer nights when you can view ...

When the moon completes the first quarter of its journey around Earth this morning at 5:41 a.m. Its 90-degree angle between ...

The next full moon is Saturday, Aug. 9, and is sometimes called the Sturgeon Moon. It gets that name from when "The Great ...

Moon phases are part of a 29.5-day lunar cycle, NASA tells us, caused by the angles between the sun, moon, and Earth. Moon phases are how the moon looks from Earth as it goes around us.