A simple guide to the Dec. 25, 2025 night sky, with viewing tips for the moon, bright planets, and familiar winter stars ...

The hours following sunset on Dec. 25 offer a wealth of naked-eye astronomy targets that can put even the most glitzy Christmas lights to shame, especially when viewed from a dark sky location.

This holiday season, the night sky turns into a stage for a weeklong celestial performance. The evenings around Christmas 2025 will be filled with planetary alignments, moon phases, and even the ...

Use telescopes and binoculars to observe a crescent moon, Jupiter as a 'Christmas star', star clusters and more — now is a great time to go night sky viewing.

Warner Brothers Pictures via APBy  LINDSEY BAHR and JAKE COYLE The bean counters might say otherwise, but 2025 was a good ...

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The last supermoon of the year will shine bright this week, when it reaches peak illumination at 6:15 p.m. EST, on Dec. 4, according to the Old Farmer's Almanac. This full 'cold moon,' will be the ...

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The last supermoon of the year will shine soon in December skies. The moon’s orbit around the Earth isn’t a perfect circle so it gets nearer and farther as it swings around. When a full moon is closer ...

The last time we had a supermoon was just last month in November and in October, making December's supermoon the third one in a row this year. The December full moon will rise, Dec. 4, at 4:14 a.m.

An artist's impression of the collision between the early Earth and Theia, which may have formed the moon MPS / Mark A. Garlick Around 4.5 billion years ago, a planet called Theia is thought to have ...