This is the last chance to catch the pair in conjunction this year—with Venus set to be unusually bright in the night sky.

A 10 percent waning crescent moon illuminated with earthshine rises behind the Empire State Building ... [+] before sunrise in New York City on October 11, 2023, as seen from Hoboken, New Jersey.

And be sure to get outside after sunset tonight (Feb. 1). For that evening a lovely crescent moon will appear to snuggle up close to Venus, particularly for skywatchers across the Western Hemisphere.

Exciting February sky events include Venus at its brightest and closest to Earth, the moon occulting the Pleiades, and a ...

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. This celestial phenomenon is called a conjunction, ...

For early risers in New York City, Mercury rises at 5:38 a.m. on December 28, followed by the sun at 6:48 a.m. and the moon at 5:26 a.m. By 6:15 a.m., both Mercury and the crescent moon will be ...

The office of Iraq’s top Shia cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani issued a statement on when this year’s holy month of ...

Related: What you can see in the night sky tonight On the nights before and after a new moon, when just a thin crescent is present, it is sometimes possible to make out the stunning effect known ...

Witness a rare cosmic sight as Venus and the crescent moon align beautifully over the Eiffel Tower in Paris, part of a larger ...