When the Sun hits the rims of the Blanchinus, La Caille, and Purbach craters at just the right angles during the Moon's cycle ...

This year's buck moon will reach its peak illumination at 4:37 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time on Thursday, July 10, 2025. While ...

In science-fiction stories, companies often mine the moon or asteroids. While this may seem far-fetched, this idea is edging ...

From Vedic hymns to stone observatories, how ancient India mapped the cosmos, decoded time, and laid the foundations of modern astronomical thought ...

On September 18, 1968, the Soviet Union’s Zond 5 spacecraft managed to circle the Moon. The achievement beat NASA’s iconic ...

Stargazing in July hopefully promises warm nights in Wyoming. The highlight of July evenings is the prominent band of the ...

THE James Webb Space Telescope has discovered its first-ever exoplanet – a distant world hidden by the glare of its nearest ...

A New Moon can trigger some unexpected energy shifts in your life for a couple of weeks afterwards, and the New Moon on ...

Stonehenge, the infamous stone circle on Salisbury Plain, U.K., dates to around 2500 B.C.E. The monument is aligned so that if you are standing at the center of the ring on the summer soltice (which ...

The full moon is the worst time to examine it with a telescope as the moon appears one-dimensional – a circle with smaller circles on it. We do not just call it the full moon. Each month of the ...

That's because the moon orbits our planet not along a circular path but rather along an elliptical path — sort of a squashed circle. And this means that, over its monthly journey, the moon ...

"I am quite pleased to announce that my book, "Bad Astronomy: Misconceptions and Misuses Revealed, from Astrology to the Moon Landing 'Hoax'" has been released by Wiley and Sons. After three years of ...