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The summer solstice marks the longest day of the year and is celebrated around the world. Summer solstice marks the start of astronomical summer and is celebrated around the world. (Image credit: Anton Petrus via Getty Images) When is the summer solstice? The summer solstice for the Northern Hemisphere occurs on June 20, 2025, at 10:42 p.m. EDT (0242 GMT on June 21), a

Not all Full Moons are created the same. Follow the familiar Moon long enough, and you'll notice something strange, as it seems to wander across the sky from north to south, from one cycle to the next. Welcome to the fantastic precession of our natural satellite, the Moon. Last December, we saw the 'Long Night's Full Moon,' as the Full Moon nearest to the solstice rode the highest in

Catch the full moon rise over the southeastern horizon on June 10. The full "Strawberry Moon" rises in 2023 behind the Empire State Building in New York. (Image credit: Anadolu via Getty Images) Look up — or rather, down — tonight to spot the lowest full moon in nearly two decades. This month's full moon will ride low on the southern horizon thanks to an orbital phenom

The Strawberry Moon is the name given to the full Moon in June, the sixth full Moon of the year, rising on 11 June 2025 at 22:46 BST. What's more, the Strawberry Moon in 2025 will be joined in the night sky by bright red star Antares, which is known as the 'rival of Mars'. And this is the lowest full Moon of the year, as well as one of the farthest from the Sun. Strawberry Moon rising over

Don't miss the 2025 full "Strawberry Moon" when it rises above the southeastern horizon on June 10. A full "Strawberry Moon" reveals its brilliant colors in the night sky (Image credit: Photo by Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) This month's full "Strawberry Moon" graces the night sky on June 11, putting on a spectacular show as the fully-lit disk of Earth's n

Join EarthSky’s Marcy Curran for a video preview of the daytime Arietid meteor shower. The mornings around June 7, 2025, are the best time to watch for Arietid meteors in the dark sky before dawn. June 2025 daytime meteor shower … the Arietids Most meteor showers are easy to observe. Just find a dark sky, and look up! But what about meteor showers that happen in the daytime, when the sun

At 9:46 AM Eastern Daylight Time on June 1, 2025, instruments registered a geomagnetic K-index of 8, creeping toward 9 – a level rarely reached outside the most intense solar episodes. Such readings signal strong electric currents racing through Earth’s magnetic shield – the first sign that a severe solar storm disturbance has arrived. Power operators, satellite

The universe will smile back at us on May 29, thanks to an uncanny cosmic alignment The moon will team up with Castor and Pollux to create a smiling face in the night sky on May 29. (Image credit: Starry Night) A crescent moon will appear alongside the bright stars Castor and Pollox to form a lopsided grin in the night sky on May 29. Skywatchers in the U.S. will find the cosm

Two days after its new phase, the moon will make a close pass to Jupiter in the evening sky while the summer constellations will be rising. An illustration of the new moon of May 2025 near the sun on May 27. (Image credit: Chris Vaughan/Starry Night) The new moon of May occurs on May 26. Two days later the moon will make a close pass to Jupiter in the evening sky, and

At evening dusk – May 23, 24 and 25, 2020 – find an unobstructed horizon in the direction of sunset, and watch for the young moon, plus the planets Mercury and Venus, to pop out in the deepening twilight. From many places worldwide, it’ll be tough to spot the whisker-thin lunar crescent beneath Venus and Mercury on May 23, because the moon will be out only briefly after sunset. It’ll be