On Saturday, April 12, look east at dusk to see the next full moon ... As with a sunset, that gives the moon a muted orangey color (rather than the stark, bright white color when it's high up ...

The next time astronauts land on the moon, we will watch it in high-definition. The transmission will be in color, digital ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) is trying to figure out what it would take for the astronauts of the Artemis program to send ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...