The practice of sighting the new moon, or hilal, to determine the start of the Ramadan fasting month, as carried out by Malaysia, has now become a reference at the international level.

Marjorie Albright passed away Jan. 28 at age 108. The painter, golfer, bridge player and devoted community volunteer is ...

For many children, gazing at the night sky is just a fleeting wonder.But for Hillary Diane Andales and Florence Pauline Basubas, it was the beginning ...

The practice of sighting the new moon or hilal to determine the start of the Ramadan fasting month, as carried out by Malaysia, has now become a ...

Because the Moon appears slightly smaller in the sky at that moment, it does not block all of the Sun’s light. Instead, a ...

German-based photographer Wolfgang Tillmans' current exhibition at Regen Projects opened to long lines and an overflow crowd ...

A newly studied solar system breaks the usual planet pattern, raising fresh questions about how rocky and gas planets form.

A Duke University graduate is an astronaut candidate with NASA. Anna Menon has previously been on a mission with Space X, and now she's in the middle of a two-year training program to prepare her for ...

A total lunar eclipse will dazzle skies next month, marking what astronomers are calling one of the best astronomical events to see with the naked eye.

An organic molecule called methanimine was found scattered throughout a dense clump of gas and dust 554 light-years away.

The New Crescent Society, which is organizing the Greenwich event with the Royal Observatory, is hoping moon sighting will become fully established in Britain and be used by mosques.

This enormous chain of hundreds of galaxies—a cosmic filament—is twisting through space 400 million light-years away ...