Twenty years ago today, I watched TV coverage of a probe descending toward the surface of Titan, a moon of Saturn ... faint path of light leads us between the cliffs and toward Saturn with ...

At new phase, you can't see the moon from Earth because the illuminated side is facing away from us, and on top of that new moons rise and set with the sun; even if one could light ... York City the ...

Onlookers saw not only the full moon, but also a bright light close to its disk. Saturn, the “ringed planet,” is just past its bright opposition, a point in Earth’s orbit when it’s between ...

There will also be two total lunar eclipses that occur during the March and September full moon events. A lunar eclipse, ...

From New York City, for example, the sun sets at 5:12 p.m. and by the end of civil twilight at 5:41 p.m., the moon sets at 7:54 p.m. and Saturn at 8:06 p.m.; the actual conjunction is at 11:52 p.m ...