Tagged: moon

Transits of Jupiter’s moons Astronomers speak of a transit of when one of Jupiter’s four large Galilean moons, or its shadow, crosses in front of the giant planet. These transits are interesting and dynamic. They’re predicted well in advance. You’ll need powerful binoculars or a...

To read moon phase information in text format, visit this page. With meteor season upon us, it’s helpful to be aware of what phase the moon is in. The best nights to observe meteors are those around new moon phase, when the moon is scantily...

 A man looks towards the supermoon full moon and the Milky Way on May 26, 2021 in Rylstone, Australia in this image by photographer Mark Evans for Getty Images. The observer’s flashlight appears to reach toward the moon in this image. It occurred during a...

Blue Origin’s protest against NASA’s decision to not hire the company to build its next human moon lander has been shut down by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO). Earlier this year, NASA awarded SpaceX a contract to build its Human Landing System (HLS), or...

IT may seem like utter lunar-cy, but this picture has been driving internet users crazy. The confusing image has divided opinion as it appears to show a giant moon shining in the middle of the day. The thin, wispy shape has caused some confusion online...

The next full moon of 2021 will occur on Friday in the U.S. Called the buck moon and the thunder moon, Earth’s natural satellite will appear opposite the sun in Earth-based longitude at 10:37 p.m. ET, according to NASA.   In a blog post, the...

Astronomers have discovered the presence of a disk around a planet beyond our solar system for the first time. By using the high-resolution Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), of which the European Southern Observatory (ESO) is an international partner, the scientists uncovered the circumplanetary disk...

Lucky residents of southeast Asia got a chance to watch the moon pass in front of the red planet Mars on April 17, 2021. Astronomers call this event an occultation. The occultation of Mars was captured by EarthSky friends and photographers in India. Mars slipped...

The landing site for China’s complex Chang’e 5 moon sample and return mission now has a name: Statio Tianchuan. Statio means a post or station in Latin and is also used in the formal name for NASA’s Apollo 11 landing site, Statio Tranquillitatis; and Statio...

The methane wafting from Enceladus may be a sign that life teems in the Saturn moon’s subsurface sea, a new study reports. In 2005, NASA’s Cassini Saturn orbiter discovered geysers blasting particles of water ice into space from “tiger stripe” fractures near Enceladus’ south pole....