While February’s grand planetary parade might be behind us, March will still afford good opportunities to see many of the parade’s participants—especially Mercury. The solar system’s ...

Home to the world's highest tides and biggest lobsters, New Brunswick will experience a partial solar eclipse at sunrise on March 29, 2025. For one eclipse-chaser, it's the ultimate moon-shot.

You can see a new moon when it crosses the face of the sun during a solar eclipse ... when just a thin crescent is present, it is sometimes possible to make out the stunning effect known as ...

As Venus approaches its inferior conjunction, astrophotographers have snapped some striking shots of the crescent planet ...

After the sun sets on the night of February 28, the 29th day of Shaaban month in the Hijri calendar, moon sighters face west ...

Face southwest about an hour before sunset and locate the crescent Moon. ・Look just off to the right of the Moon—Venus will appear as a tiny white speck against the blue sky. ・Use binoculars ...

This means we see the Moon’s phases from Earth as different shapes. Waxing crescent Moon – less than half of the visible surface is illuminated (starts as a thin, curved sliver) and getting ...