Where I know the Moon to be, there is simply a black void; the Moon’s presence is defined solely by the absence of stars." Buzz Aldrin on the Moon, with no stars in the background. - Image ...

Even on Saturday, August 22, the crescent Moon—by now 20% illuminated—will remain a delicate and fascinating sight, this time with bright star Spica just below it (see above).

Visible planets. On the day of the new moon, the sun sets at 7:59 p.m. in New York, per the U.S. Naval Observatory. As one moves north the sun sets later; moving south the opposite happens and it ...

In addition to sensing merging black holes and neutron stars, a gravitational-wave detector on the moon could be able to spot collisions of smaller, less massive objects, such as white dwarfs, the ...

“The Sun is shining on the spacecraft, or Moon, and the camera is adapted to that brightness and can’t pick up the faint light from the stars in the background at the same time,” she added.