SACRAMENTO, CA — The western sky offered competing features Monday night as the glowing red sunset and crescent moon ...

Just days after sharing a breathtaking shot of Earth, the American astronaut has followed up with an equally stunning shot of a waning crescent moon, or, as Pettit put it: “a glowing fingernail ...

This week, our gallery photographers show impressive landscapes from Giza in Egypt to the breathtaking Aurora Borealis over a ...

I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also applies to northern hemisphere mid-northern latitudes).

Earthshine is the effect you get when you sometimes see the faint dark part of the Moon glowing next to a fully illuminated lunar crescent. The effect is caused by the light from the Sun ...

This phase of the moon will peak at 8:53 a.m. ET Wednesday, but the glowing orb will appear full ... blocks part of the sun’s face, creating a crescent shape in which it appears the moon is ...

The Ramzan crescent has been sighted in Saudi Arabia, the UAE, the UK, New Zealand, Australia, and Indonesia, marking the ...