Skywatching

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You can relive NASA's historic Apollo 11 mission as it happened with two amazing livestreams this month courtesy of ApolloinRealTime.org's Ben Feist and Space.com partner Simulation Curriculum!

Here's how you can watch the "full buck moon" go into partial eclipse today (July 16).

The online observatory Slooh.com hosted a live webcast of the last lunar eclipse of 2019 today (July 16) and you can watch it live beginning at 2:40 p.m. EDT (1840 GMT).

If you look up high in the southern sky this week around midnight, you'll be able to see a pattern of stars that resembles a jet plane.

On the 50th anniversary of the launch of Apollo 11 tomorrow, the moon will be darkened by Earth's shadow in a partial lunar eclipse.

July's full moon, nicknamed the Thunder Moon, occurs on July 16 at 5:38 p.m. EDT (2138 GMT). A partial lunar eclipse begins around that same time, and Saturn will be close by.

Skywatchers can see the beauty and vastness of the nighttime skies in these dark sky-designated parks.

By watching the skies at the brink of sunrise and shortly after nightfall, astronomers spotted a hunk of rock with the shortest-known asteroid "year" to date.

As millions of skywatchers witnessed the Great South American Solar Eclipse on July 2, a European satellite observed the celestial event from space.

July will be a great month to view the rings of Saturn — here's how.

The Planetary Society's solar-sailing spacecraft LightSail 2 beamed back its first views of Earth on Sunday (July 7). And you can keep close tabs on the little satellite — here's how.

What better way to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 than to pull out binoculars and telescopes to try to spot the historic mission's destination?

Star trails circle over Ramon Crater in this long-exposure photo of the night sky over Israel's Negev Desert.

When the July 2 total solar eclipse crossed South America, a small group of scientists waited to see if the models they made matched up with pictures of the real thing.

Skywatcher and satellite tracker Ralf Vandebergh recently caught a rare glimpse of the U.S. Air Force's secretive vehicle doing its thing in orbit.

Before the April 2024 total eclipse that will cross North America, there are almost two dozen lunar and solar eclipses appearing in skies across the world.