Its official name is the Apollo Lunar Sample Return Container No. 1008, but everyone, including Teasel Muir-Harmony, curator ...

Amid a bout of prime-time doomscrolling, a social media post reminded me there was something worth seeing in the sky. Mars disappeared behind the full Moon ... visible from a small portion of ...

The moon's ascending node (the point in the sky where its orbit crosses the ecliptic from south to north) is moving westward ...

The moon makes for an excellent guide to see Mars in the night sky tonight. As the sun sets ... Because the moon is so close to Earth relative to Mars, only certain parts of the world will be ...

it is all a matter of perspective and how we see objects in the night sky from Earth. They say: "Mars isn't actually close to the Moon, it just appears as though it is. In practical astronomy ...

Tonight (Jan. 13), bright Mars will disappear behind the full Wolf Moon for several hours before reappearing on the other side. It's the only lunar occultation of Mars visible from the U.S. this year.

Our four seasons are the by-product of the 23.5 degree tilt of the Earth's axis ... takes across the sky, thereby accounting for the length of daylight. Want to see the moon up close in the ...

Even to a casual viewer, the waxing gibbous moon of Friday ... tilt of the Earth's axis and during the course of a year we see the sun cycle between declination 23.5 degrees north and 23.5 degrees ...