Cairns, Australia, is all pumped up for its first total solar eclipse in more than 1,300 years, and its people are eager to share this singular event with the world...

For the second time this year, the moon will eclipse the sun...

For the third time in a year or so, an asteroid is giving Earth’s orbit a swipe...

You might have noticed the moon shining pretty brightly these past few days...

On August 31, the moon will be full for the second time this month. Because of that, this one is called a blue moon—it almost never happens...

Ever mention something that happens “once in a blue moon”? Well brace yourselves—that moon will be here at the end of the month. Tonight, August 1, is the month’s first full moon...

Venus and Jupiter have moved their celestial trysts to mornings, Venus having transited the sun on June 5–6 . It is now the Morning Star...

If you manage to rise before the sun on U.S...

The moon’ tidal forces are pulling on Earth enough to slow down her rotation, by about 1.4 milliseconds every 100 years...

No sooner does NASA discover a crater filled with what is quite possibly tons of ice in the bottom of a crater on the moon’s version of Antarctica, than people start talking about ...