(All times Eastern; * denotes a Super Moon.) The images below show the day-by ... First Quarter, waxing gibbous, Full Moon, waning gibbous, Last Quarter, and waning crescent.

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

Orion the Hunter and Taurus the Bull face off in the southern sky in early February as soon as it gets dark. Taurus is home to two of the brightest star clusters, the Pleiades and Hyades. Both are ...

THE peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) where 14 South African National Defence (SANDF) members have been killed in the gunfight with rebels backed by Rwanda, is ...

anuary 2025 was the hottest on record, reaching a whole 1.7 degrees above pre-industrial levels. If many climate-watchers expected the world to cool slightly this year thanks to the natural La ...

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.

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

Although the Full Moon appeared on January 14, last night’s called ‘Waning Gibbous’ happens directly after a full Moon and lasts until half of the Moon’s face remains lit up at the Third ...