during which it passed between the sun and Earth, causing its shadow-drenched disk to be temporarily lost from sight in the sun's glare. In the coming days the moon will form a waxing crescent ...

This year, Christmas Eve will bring a beautiful sight to the sky shortly after sunset: two bright planets sharing the twilight with a thin crescent ... to the Sun than Earth.

How soon after the new moon can you spot the thin crescent ... young crescent moon. A very challenging observation to be sure. Related: Moon facts: Fun information about the Earth's moon Looking ...

Once emerging from behind the moon and regaining communication with flight controllers in Houston, Orion beamed back photos of a close-up moon and a crescent Earth ... of Apollo 12 and 14.

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 ... closest approach to Earth in a given month ...

A constant rain of tiny meteorites kicks up dust on the moon and helps generate the thin layer ... when it hits Earth’s magnetic field?) “Using samples brought back from the Apollo missions ...

On the night of April 29, Earth's celestial companion will appear as a slender crescent in the western sky ... make its closest approach to Jupiter at 12:54 EDT (1654 GMT), at which point there ...