Earth's Moon: Formation, Composition and Orbit

The July full moon, also known as the Buck Moon, occurs on July 21. It will share the evening sky with Mercury, which will be at its greatest apparent distance from the sun that day.

The new moon of July 2024 occurs today as Earth reaches its farthest point from the sun, known as aphelion.

June's Strawberry Full Moon of 2024 delighted skywatcher from across the globe, and was captured in some amazing photos.

The dark skies of the new moon of June 2024 will allow some of the naked eye planets to stand out late in the night after midnight.

The new moon of May 2024 will see the bright constellations of summer begin to rise just as those of winter sink below the horizon.

This month's new moon, which occurs on April 8, is a special one: It will cause a total solar eclipse, the last such event to grace the contiguous United States for two decades.

The moon reaches its first quarter moon phase on Dec. 19, crossing the sky in the Pisces constellation as the last half-moon of 2023.

November is when the winter constellations of the Northern Hemisphere become more prominent; it's the time of year when Orion, Taurus and Gemini are visible almost all night long.

The steel skeleton of the world's largest visible- and infrared-light telescope is illuminated by the rising full moon in a gorgeous new photo from the European Southern Observatory.