Humanity’s need to track the Moon’s changing phases and motions is ancient. Mammoth hunters used the Moon as a timekeeper, carving crescent-shaped notches into bone and tusk. Sumerian astronomers ...
NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman has delighted skywatchers online after posting a short, unvarnished video of the moon—shot, improbably, on an iPhone, while aboard the Artemis 2 spaceflight. Shared on X ...
This week, Astronomy magazine Editor Emeritus Dave Eicher invites you to look to the western sky on the evening of May 21 and see a crescent Moon near the open star cluster M44, also known as the ...