Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Look up at the sky on Monday, Feb. 2, and you may notice a certain bright star is hidden from view. This special celestial event — ...

The moon is our nearest neighbor in space, at an average distance of about 238,000 miles. As it orbits our Earth every month or so, it appears to pass by stars and planets in our night sky ... or, at ...

Look up at the sky on Monday, Feb. 2, and you may notice a certain bright star is hidden from view. This special celestial event — a lunar occultation — occurs when the moon passes in front of the ...