I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the ...

Understand the moon phases and you can wager a pretty good guess for when the next full moon is just by looking up.

The second full moon of the year − appropriately called the snow moon − will reach its peak Wednesday evening.

When they do, we have a lunar eclipse as Earth's shadow crosses the moon's face. Waning gibbous: More than half of the moon's face appears to be getting sunlight, but the amount is decreasing.

Welcome to this month’s edition of “What’s up in the sky?” February has a nice lineup of planets and some eye-catching ...

These minor interim phases are called the waxing crescent moon, waxing gibbous moon, waning gibbous moon and waning crescent moon.

Around midnight tonight in the east, a 55%-lit waning gibbous moon will be just a tenth of a degree from Spica, the brightest star in the constellation of Virgo and about 250 light-years distant.

waxing gibbous, Full Moon, waning gibbous, Last Quarter, and waning crescent. A cycle starting from one Full Moon to its next counterpart, termed the synodic month or lunar month, lasts about 29.5 ...

On the night of Feb. 5, a waxing gibbous moon will once again cover up the "Seven Sisters" of the famous Pleiades star ...