Moon watchers will get a special treat this month: September's full "harvest" moon is also a supermoon, meaning it's slightly bigger and brighter than an average moon. The full moon will be ...

The Great Square of Pegasus is rising in the east as darkness starts to fall after sunset. This large asterism is the most ...

First came a solar eclipse. Then a “strawberry moon.” Now, celestial enthusiasts can look forward to seeing a super blue moon this week starting Monday. The full moon, which will be both a ...

Here are the dates for the full moons in 2024. The next full moon will be on Thursday, Oct. 17 at 7:26 a.m. EDT (1126 GMT. The moon will still appear full the night before and after its peak to ...

What is the moon phase today? Today, Sep. 19, 2024, the moon is 16 days old and is in the Waning Gibbous phase of its lunar cycle. It is 97% illuminated. Moon phases reveal the passage of time in ...

Dione and Mimas are still south of the rings ... Tethys' shadow on the southern polar regions of the planet as the moon ...

The ringed planet reaches opposition, Mars slips past the open cluster M35, and the original Cepheid variable shines in the ...

The small moon Mimas, that looks eerily similar to a ‘Death Star’ from Star Wars, may have a subsurface ocean too, though material from the ocean does not appear to leak up to the surface. The three ...

On September 28, researchers reported that Dione - a small moon of Saturn - probably has a subsurface ocean, too. And a moon of Jupiter called Europa, which is roughly the size of our own moon ...

Although many lunar phenomena are one-night-only events, a ring around the moon is much less elusive. Also known as a lunar halo, a bright white ring of light around the moon can appear anytime ...

This week, the moon has been hanging out with not one, but three different planets on three different days. The three planets -- Jupiter, Mars and Mercury -- have been in conjunction with the moon ...

This enhances the red sunsets and the moon will maintain a nice orange color ... In their order of brightness these moons are: Titan, Rhea, Tethys, Dione, Iapetus, Enceladus, Mimas, Hyperion ...