As of Wednesday, Oct. 29, the moon phase is First Quarter. There will be 49% of the moon lit up tonight, according to NASA's Daily Moon Observation. The moon is getting brighter each night, so there's ...

The Beaver Moon reaches its very fullest o n the morning of Wednesday, November 5, with peak illumination at 8:19 a.m. ET. At ...

The Hunter's Moon -- the first supermoon of the year -- shone brightly over the sky across the United States just before midnight on Oct. 6. This year, the Hunter's Moon is also known as the harvest ...

Quasi-moons are not real moons and don't actually orbit the Earth, although they sometimes appear to do so for short periods of time, Phil Nicholson, professor of astronomy at Cornell University, told ...

Look up Oct. 5: the nearly Harvest Moon will guide you to Saturn, where a telescope reveals its famous rings — even if they're just a thin line for now. Sunday evening (Oct. 5) will bring us a fine ...

Deep inside a Swiss mountain, a group of students spent some of the summer simulating what life might be like inside a lunar ...

Sunday evening (Oct. 5) will bring us a fine opportunity to make a positive identification of what many consider to be the most beautiful of all telescopic objects, the ringed planet Saturn. And ...

Tune in to see this year's first supermoon as it lights up the autumn sky above the Italian countryside. Editor's note: The first supermoon of 2025 has come and gone, putting on a dramatic display as ...

It's a weekend double cosmic treat! Comets Lemmon and SWAN are making a close approach to Earth. Can you see it in NJ? Timing ...

Usually when we’re talking about the Harvest Moon, we’re describing the full moon that rises in September when gardens are slowing down and crops are being taken in for the season. But this weekend ...

October's full moon in 2025 will be the first of three consecutive supermoons at the end of the year. The full moon will reach its peak illumination on Monday, October 6, 2025, at 11:48 p.m. ET. A ...