The new moon occurs April 27, and a day later Venus and Saturn will make a close approach to each other (known as a ...

The celestial bodies near us, the sun and the moon and the planets ... They'll still be hundreds of millions of miles apart, of course, but they'll look very close. To spot Venus and Saturn ...

This week, the early morning sky will literally be smiling down at you in Central Florida as the planets and the moon align ...

The performance was the result of the orbit of the Earth carrying it between the sun and the moon in a perfect alignment ... spectrum—colors that break apart and spill out when the light passes ...

The Moon does not make its own light like a star. The Moon appears bright because it reflects light from the Sun. Like the Earth, half of the Moon faces towards the Sun, and half faces away from it.

A long, long time ago, the Sun and the Moon walked the earth, living among humans as equals. Without their light, the Earth turned peacefully beneath the light of the stars. For generations ...