A remarkable sight will appear in the southwestern sky an hour after sunset Saturday evening when Venus appears very close to a thin crescent moon. This celestial phenomenon is called a conjunction, ...

The new moon of January will be at 7:36 a.m. Eastern Time on Jan. 29, according to the U.S. Naval Observatory, and two days ...

The American Red Cross encourages donors to give blood now to help protect the blood supply from the ongoing impact of severe winter weather and wildfires. Donors of all blood types – particularly ...

Following the recent Wolf Moon in a celestial game of peekaboo with Mars, January is shaping up to be a dazzling spectacle ...

Mars, Venus, Jupiter, and Saturn can be spotted without special equipment, with Uranus and Neptune requiring a telescope.

Plus: Saturn’s moon Iapetus is visible, our Moon passes the bright star Spica, and Mars skims south of Pollux in Gemini in ...

A moon with a name that could scare people and conjure images and thoughts of redness, blood, and horror is the ‘Blood moon’. This full moon usually comes during a total lunar eclipse ...

This is known as a blood moon. The phenomenon happens because colors with longer ... but people in some places can see the moon covering part of the sun, so the sun looks like a crescent in the sky.

Unlike during a total solar eclipse, the moon only blocks part of the sun’s face, creating a crescent shape in which ... which has led to the nickname “blood moon” for a lunar eclipse ...

This thin waxing crescent is observed for a short period as the moon gets lower in the western skies after sunset. Related: When Is the Next Blood Moon? Go Ahead and Mark Those Calendars! The next new ...