Officials saw the crescent moon on Sunday night in Saudi Arabia, home to the holiest sites in Islam, marking the start of the holy fasting month of Ramadan for many of the world’s 1.8 billion Muslims. The sacred month, which sees those observing abstain from food and water from sunrise to sunset, marks a period […]
The thin crescent moon will meet up with the solar system’s second-largest planet, Saturn for the first time in 2024 on Sunday (Jan. 14), during a close approach between the two celestial bodies. At the same time, the 3-day-old moon will move into an astronomical arrangement with Saturn, the sixth planet from the sun, called […]
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock has handed over almost 10 tons of relief supplies for the suffering Palestinian population in the Gaza Strip to the Egyptian Red Crescent. The minister landed from Cairo in an A400M air force transporter in the al-Arish, capital of the Egyptian governorate of North Sinai on the Mediterranean, on Tuesday. […]
The moon will meet up with Saturn, the solar system’s second-largest planet, on Sunday (Dec. 17) when the two celestial bodies make a close approach. The moon will be almost half-illuminated during the close approach, and at around the same time, the two celestial bodies will share the same right ascension (the celestial equivalent of […]