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

Skywatchers in central Florida and southern Texas can witness a rare lunar standstill on Feb. 7, as the waxing gibbous moon ...

The moon reached its peak brightness at 8:53 a.m. EST (1353 GMT) on Feb. 12, but local moonrise and moonset times will depend ...

NASA shares an iconic image of carbon dioxide ice erupting in geysers when Martian winter turns to spring.

However, the moon's orbit around Earth is tilted about 5 degrees relative to Earth's orbit around the Sun. This is why lunar eclipses don't occur every full moon—they only happen when the moon's ...

February kicks off what astronomers call “galaxy season” in the Northern Hemisphere. This time of year offers the best ...

The Moon is tidally locked to Earth, meaning that its rotation speed around its own axis matches the time it takes to orbit around the ... the Moon is on a slightly tilted angle, making it appear ...

Saturn doesn’t tilt on the same axis as Earth ... After the spectacular ‘Wolf Moon’ lit up our skies in January, this month’s full Moon has a tough act to follow. Luckily, the second ...

Because of the orbital motions of the Saturnian moon and its impactor ... plane in which all the major planets orbit. (Earth has a 23-degree tilt.) This means that during Saturn’s northern ...