During such a busy stretch for stargazing, it can be hard to keep track of all that’s happening in the solar system, including what we can see from our backyards. On Monday night, Aug. 11, the moon ...

Moon phases reveal the passage of time in the night sky. Some nights when we look up at the moon, it is full and bright; sometimes it is just a sliver of silvery light. These changes in appearance are ...

The moon is half lit up tonight, which means a lot of things. Namely, we're in a new lunar cycle. The lunar cycle is a series of eight unique phases of the moon's visibility. The whole cycle takes ...

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