The dark skies during a new moon provide ideal conditions for spotting skywatching targets that would otherwise be outshined by moonlight. The next new moon will occur on Friday, Nov. 1.

St. Ignatius of Antioch tells us that, “Those who lived according to the old order of things have come to a new hope, no longer keeping the Sabbath, but the Lord’s Day, in which our life is ...

Approximately every day the moon delays its rising (and setting) by about 50 minutes, and this explains why the waxing becomes better visible a few days after the new moon as the elongation from ...

Celebrations begin with the rising of the second new moon after the winter solstice ... are held on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day. In China, millions travel - sometimes thousands of miles ...

New Moon is also known as Amavasya. This New Moon is going to occur during Bhadrapada month and that's why it is also known ...

In exchange, it would have to pay for the rover’s final tests; find a way to land it on the Moon (possibly with a different lander); and then perform its original scientific mission. Any new ...

There are eight phases of the Moon beginning with the new Moon, followed by waxing crescent, first quarter, waxing gibbous, full Moon, waning gibbous, third quarter and finally waning crescent.

Kathy asked me something I get asked a lot, and that is why we can sometimes see the moon during the day. The moon seems like it is just a nighttime thing, however, there are some times during the ...

“It’s weird,” said the longtime Yankees announcer. By David Waldstein In the new biopic “The Apprentice,” much is made of Trump’s tutelage under the venal fixer Roy Cohn. But the ...

In the second passage from the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus makes another startling claim that He is greater than the Sabbath ...

Black Sabbath is going the logical route with the marketing around their 1970 hit "Iron Man" and has teamed up with Marvel for a new merch line. "Logical" is really the only word to describe it ...