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

On Monday, May 12, the full Flower Moon will appear in the east at dusk. It will emit a luminous glow all night and set in the west when dawn arrives. The moon will also be bright, shining, and full ...

Moonlight lasts from dawn to dusk for a few nights in a row ... That atmosphere acts as a filter, transforming the moon into the eerie color when it first emerges above the horizon.

The night sky was ablaze with moonlight on Saturday, April 12, 2025, as the first full moon of spring — known as the pink moon — rose in dusk. Also the smallest full moon of the year, it wasn ...

The total lunar eclipse will tint the moon an orangey-red color, which is called a blood ... often caused by dust or smoke in the atmosphere. If you saw an orange or reddish moon high in the ...

There are two types of Blue Moons but unfortunately, neither has anything to do with color. A seasonal Blue Moon is the traditional ... a tremendous cloud of ash and dust was injected into the ...

For 10 years, Italian photographer Marcella Giulia Pace captured 48 stunning photos of the Moon — each one a different color ... s atmosphere filled with dust, smoke, or water droplets.

Long wavelengths of sunlight are refracted through Earth's atmosphere before reaching the moon, which reflects them in reddish hues that may resemble the color of blood. This week's "Blood Moon ...

And voila—that’s the reason for your blood moon! The color during a total lunar eclipse ... Factors in the sky like pollution, clouds, dust or particles from volcanic eruptions can alter ...

NASA has shared the first closeup images of the Donaldjohanson asteroid, captured by its Lucy spacecraft on a recent flyby around 139 million miles (223 million km) from Earth.

Troublesome lunar dust could soon be transformed into solar cells to help power moon bases and humanity's push to explore further out into space. This is the promise of an international team of ...

We tend to think of the moon as little more than a barren rock, but it’s very, very dusty. However, this dust is a little different than the stuff that collects on our bookshelves. Every time an ...