moon

The full moon this month was more than just a normal full moon.

The moon rising over the Mount Victoria Lookout in Wellington, New Zealand. Beautiful.

According to Storm Team 3 Chief Meteorologist Rob Perillo, if you are wanting to get a glimpse of the comet Pan-Starrs tonight, you need to be looking up (with binoculars for best view) around sunset.

There is life in outer space, and it has made contact with … William Shatner?

Steve Wiley recently posted a story about hamburgers, asking how much you would be willing to pay for one.  This story is about some kids that send a burger into space: not aboard the Soyuz, or the Space Shuttle, not on the International Space Station, but aboard a specially-designed platform, hanging from a helium-filled balloon.

Chip Somodevilla, Getty Images The first person to set foot on the Earth’s moon, Neil Armstrong passed away today (Aug. 25) due to complications resulting from cardiovascular procedures. He was 82.

I am having to fill in for Debbie Ray today, and on my way in I was able to pull over and snap this grainy, horrible shot of the Crescent Moon and Jupiter and Venus.

I was browsing through Imgur the other day (it doesn't matter what kind of photographs I was looking for, that's my business... ha!!) when I saw these pictures of the moon and sun.

Super Moon 2012, which occurred Saturday night, was not a sight to be missed, even if you were too busy drinking your Cinco de Mayo margaritas. This natural phenomenon is the one time a year when the moon is closer to the earth than ever, making it appear 30 percent brighter and 14 percent bigger. It also makes us stare off into space and go, “Whoah!?”

Amateur astronomers may want to dust off their telescopes, because a massive full moon — aka a “supermoon” — will arrive this weekend and it’ll be the year’s biggest.

We spotted it Saturday night coming home from downtown Lafayette while at the red light at Johnston St. &  University Avenue. The "Super Moon" was definitely noticeable.  NASA says we haven't seen one like it since 1993 and we won't see another one for a long time.  Makes me wish I had paid more attention in Astronomy class!  The science tells us that it's because the moon was full a

This image was made from a series of photos taken of the December 21st lunar eclipse.  The photos were taken by Archbishop Rummel High School students Harris Higginbotham and Antonio Torres.

Found this cool video of this morning's lunar eclipse... the entire sequence is condensed into sixty seconds.   By the way,  the last time a lunar eclipse happened on the day of the winter solstice was in 1638. Watch it here: http://www...