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Sky-gazers can catch a glimpse of the full moon at its peak illumination this week. August’s full moon, also called the sturgeon moon, will be visible from Friday night into the early hours of ...

As some readers know, this column normally appears in The Press of Atlantic City every other Tuesday. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to write and submit a column two weeks ago due to a medical emergency ...

If you were up early enough on Friday, Sept. 19, you may have noticed the bright star shining next to the crescent moon in the morning sky. The upcoming conjunction will be a party between the moon – ...

Over 4.6 billion years ago, Earth took shape from a spinning cloud of dust and gas surrounding the young sun. Tiny particles within this cloud collided and clumped together, driven by gravity and ...

Astronomers have determined that our nearest neighbor is gradually inching away from us. The Weather Channel reports that the Earth’s moon is moving further away from our planet, albeit at an ...

A new study implies that in the past, moons in our solar system may have had rings just like planets do — deepening the mystery of why no ringed moons exist today. When you purchase through links on ...

Astronomers at the Complutense University of Madrid first spotted this intriguing event using a powerful telescope in ...