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The latest on everything between Earth and the universe, including upcoming sky events like eclipses, comets, and aurora.

Updates in 2026

19-Jan-2026Fast CME Could Light Up Skies in the Coming Hours

Auroras could glow beyond the polar regions as a fast CME is forecast to arrive on January 19 or 20 (depending on your time zone).

16-Jan-20261 Month After December Solstice: What’s Changing?

In the Northern Hemisphere, you might be looking forward to more daylight. We take a look at how things are changing north and south of the equator.

8-Jan-2026Skywatching Tips for 2026

2026 is packed with celestial highlights, including meteor showers, eclipses, and standout planetary events. Here’s what to watch for—and when—in the night sky.

5-Jan-2026The Moon in 2026

From a crewed lunar flyby to a total solar eclipse, the Moon will be in the news in 2026. Plus, when are the biggest and smallest Full Moons?

Updates in 2025

19-Dec-2025Moon Guide for January 2026
19-Dec-2025Skywatching Tips for January 2026
10-Dec-2025Comet Watch: Latest News as 3I/ATLAS Nears Earth
3-Dec-2025Don’t Miss the Geminid Meteor Shower 2025
26-Nov-2025Moon Guide for December 2025
25-Nov-2025Skywatching Tips for December 2025
24-Nov-2025Artemis III: Where on the Moon Is the South Pole?
6-Nov-2025Most Remote Moon Until 2043
29-Oct-2025Skywatching Tips for November 2025
29-Oct-2025Moon Guide for November 2025
21-Oct-2025Comet Watch: 3I/ATLAS Flies Through Solar System
10-Oct-2025
21-Oct-2025		Comet Watch: C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) to Put On a Show?
9-Oct-2025Comet Watch: C/2025 R2 (SWAN)
1-Oct-2025Skywatching Tips for October 2025
30-Sep-2025Moon Guide for October 2025
29-Sep-2025New Star Clouds Betelgeuse Supernova Timeline
18-Sep-2025See Saturn at Its Best
16-Sep-2025A Good Time for Aurora Chasers?
10-Sep-20254 Eclipses Not to Miss 2026–2029
1-Sep-2025Skywatching Tips for September 2025
27-Aug-2025Moon Guide for September 2025
26-Aug-2025Will There Be Blue in the Blood Moon?
20-Aug-2025Sirius and the Dog Days of Summer
16-Jun-2025
14-Aug-2025		Earth Spun Unusually Quickly in July and August 2025
8-Aug-2025August 2025 Hosts Rare Black Moon
5-Aug-2025Get Ready for the August 2025 Planet Parade
25-Jul-2025Don’t Miss the Perseid Meteor Shower
24-Jul-2025Moon Guide for August 2025
24-Jul-2025Skywatching Tips for August
7-Jul-2025Seven Sisters Eclipse: See the Lunar Occultation on July 20
1-Jul-2025Where on the Moon Did Apollo 11 Land?
19-Jun-2025Skywatching Tips for July 2025
19-Jun-2025Moon Guide for July 2025
28-Jun-2024
17-Jun-2025		Why Summer 2025 Will Be Shorter
16-Jun-2025Endless Daylight, Sleepless Nights: Solstice Side Effects
13-Jun-2025Geomagnetic Storm Alert: Get Ready for Stunning Auroras
30-May-2025
6-Jun-2025		Attempted Moon Landing
2-Jun-2025
3-Jun-2025		Geomagnetic Storm: Rare Chance to See Aurora
21-May-2025
28-May-2025		See Venus Shine Brightly in the Morning Sky
27-May-2025Skywatching Highlights for June 2025
13-May-2025
21-May-2025		May 23: Moon, Venus, and Saturn Align
19-May-2025Moon Guide for June 2025
8-May-2025See the May Micro Flower Moon
30-Apr-2025Look Up for the 2025 Eta Aquarids Meteor Shower
25-Apr-2025Moon Guide for May
20-Mar-2025
22-Apr-2025		Moon Guide for April 2025
15-Apr-2025
22-Apr-2025		C/2025 F2 (SWAN): A Faint Comet Appears in the Sky
14-Apr-2025See the Lyrid Meteor Shower In a Mostly Moonless Sky
10-Apr-2025Update on T Coronae Borealis Eruption
26-Mar-2025What Solar Maximum Means for Aurora Colors in 2025
21-Mar-2025The Crescent Moon Meets the Pleiades
12-Mar-2025How to Spot Orion in the Winter Sky
11-Mar-2025March Equinox 2025
10-Mar-2025Rare Chance to See Venus in Evening & Morning Sky
5-Mar-2025Solar Eclipse to Strike North America and Europe
24-Feb-2025Moon Guide for March 2025
20-Feb-2025Don’t Miss the Total Lunar Eclipse
17-Feb-2025Planet Parade 2025: Can We See All the Planets?
14-Feb-2025Northern Lights Photography
3-Feb-2025The Moon Meets Mars
28-Jan-2025Wait Continues for Eruption of T Coronae Borealis
24-Jan-2025Moon Guide for February 2025
13-Jan-20252025 Set for Spectacular Northern Lights Displays
13-Jan-20255 Reasons to Look Up at the Moon This Year
7-Jan-2025
21-Jan-2025		Best Comet of 2025?
6-Jan-2025January 2025: See Venus and Mars at Their Best

Updates in 2024

30-Dec-2024Quadrantid Meteor Shower 2025
27-Dec-2024The Moon, Saturn & Venus Align
19-Dec-2024Will You Get a Black Moon This December?
17-Dec-2024Winter Solstice: Shortest Day, Not Latest Sunrise
11-Dec-2024This Month’s Full Moon Will Only Be 99.82% Full
4-Dec-2024Look Out for December’s Extreme Full Moon
3-Dec-2024See the Shooting Stars of the Geminids 2024
20-Nov-2024The Moon & Saturn Meet Again
15-Nov-2024Do You Get a Black Moon This Weekend?
14-Nov-2024Will We See a Bright Naked-Eye Comet in 2025?
14-Oct-2024
28-Oct-2024		What Will Happen to “Sungrazer” Comet C/2024 S1?
25-Oct-2024Saturn and Moon Meet in the Sky
17-Oct-2024
23-Oct-2024		Don’t Miss Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS
15-Oct-2024Orionids 2024—a Trail of Debris from Halley’s Comet
9-Oct-2024The Super Hunter’s Moon 2024
8-Oct-2024Saturn Moon Close Approach
27-Sep-2024Can You See the Comet?
19-Sep-2024Sun to Cross Equator This Weekend
12-Sep-2024October 2: Final Eclipse of 2024
3-Sep-2024The Super Harvest Moon Eclipse 2024
7-Jun-2024
22-Aug-2024		When Will T Coronae Borealis Erupt?
12-Aug-2024A Rare Blue Moon in August
2-Aug-2024Closest Jupiter-Mars Conjunction until 2033
31-Jul-2024Five Things to Know about the Perseid Meteor Shower
17-Jul-2024Venus Returns as the Evening Star
14-Jun-2024
22-Sep-2024		Equal Day and Night? It Happens in June!
23-May-2024
25-Jun-2024		Closest Quarter Moon 2024
25-Apr-2024Earth Slows Down, but Remains Unpredictable
1-Apr-2024Who Gets the Most Eclipses?
27-Mar-2024How San Antonio Lost the 2024 Great American Eclipse
22-Mar-2024The Comet Sharing the Stage with a Solar Eclipse
18-Mar-2024Micro Moon and Penumbral Lunar Eclipse 2024
7-Mar-2024The 7 Best Places to See the 2024 Total Solar Eclipse
6-Mar-2024March 10: Moon’s Closest Approach to Earth in 2024
12-Jan-2024
6-Mar-2024		March and April 2024: Jupiter and Moon Close Approach
18-Jan-2024January Full Moon Kicks Off Longest Moon Phase of 2024
4-Jan-2024January 2024 New Moon Will Be an Ultra-Thin Crescent Moon

Updates in 2023

4-Dec-2023Geminid Meteor Shower 2023: Where and When to See It
27-Nov-2023Why Is the Dec 5 Half Moon Special?
17-Oct-2023Lunar Eclipse over Rugby Final
14-Oct-2023Solar Eclipse 2023 Highlights
4-Oct-2023The Texas Cities That Lost a Solar Eclipse
27-Sep-2023The 2023 Annular Solar Eclipse in America
20-Sep-2023Harvest Moon Waxes as Equinox Warps Moonrise Times
15-Sep-2023
19-Oct-2023		Venus at Greatest Elongation: Subtle Patterns Revealed
20-Jul-2023
25-Aug-2023		The Super Blue Moon in August 2023
26-Jul-2023Perseid Meteor Shower 2023
17-Jul-2023The European Astronomy Community Meets
4-Jul-202399% of Population in Sunlight: July 8 Isn’t the Only Date
14-Jun-2023Who Gets the Most Sunlight?
31-May-2023June 4, 2023: Venus at Farthest Distance from Sun in Sky
3-May-2023May 2023 Eclipse: Moon Just Misses Earth’s Dark Shadow
20-Apr-2023Ningaloo Eclipse Wows Millions
4-Apr-202310 Things about the April 2023 Total Solar Eclipse
29-Mar-2023Bringing the Sky to the Screen
15-Mar-2023“The Great American Eclipse?” It Starts in Mexico
27-Feb-2023How Many Millions Live in the Path of Upcoming Eclipses?
19-Jan-2023Green Comet 2023: Find It in the Sky!
17-Jan-2023January 21, 2023: Closest New Moon Since the Middle Ages
10-Jan-2023Look Up! Night-Sky Highlights for 2023

Updates in 2022

15-Dec-2022The Shortest Day Is Becoming Longer
1-Dec-2022
3-Nov-2025		Dec 6: Minute of Global Darkness
19-Nov-2022The End of the Leap Second?
2-Nov-2022Getting Ready for a Lunar Eclipse Live Show
24-Oct-2022
25-Oct-2022		Why You Should Look Up at the Sky Today
14-Oct-202210 things about the October–November eclipse season
26-Sep-2022International Observe the Moon Night 2022
16-Sep-2022
22-Sep-2022		Get Ready for the 2022 Equilux
14-Sep-2022timeanddate at the Europlanet Science Congress 2022
7-Sep-2022When Is the Harvest Moon in 2022?
24-Aug-2022
4-Sep-2022		Watching the Weather for Artemis I
9-Aug-2022Perseids Meteor Shower 2022
1-Aug-2022Celebrate the Milky Way This August
27-Jul-2022
25-Apr-2024		Earth Sets New Record for Shortest Day
4-Jul-202299% Of Us See Daylight at This Moment (Or Do We?)
1-Jul-2022Super Buck Moon July 2022
10-Jun-2022Super Strawberry Moon June 2022
9-Jun-2022Planets to Align in the Sky in June 2022
30-May-2022500 Days to the ‘Ring of Fire’ Eclipse Across the Americas
25-May-2022
28-May-2022		Manhattanhenge 2022
20-May-2022Shortest Moon Phase in 2022
16-May-2022Highlights: May 2022 Lunar Eclipse
13-May-2022Getting Ready for the Prime-Time Blood Moon Eclipse
2-May-2022May 2022 Lunar Eclipse: Top 3 Tips for Watching the Event
25-Apr-2022
6-May-2022		timeanddate at the Europlanet Science Congress
29-Mar-2022Longest Prime-Time Totality on the West Coast This Century