During the eight months since the UK declared the first of its nationwide lockdowns, writers have still written, publishers have still published and book designers have continued to produce an ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket snapped a pretty special in-space selfie on Monday (Oct. 7). The shot, captured during the launch of ...

What is the moon phase today? Today, Oct. 14, 2024, the moon is 12 days old and is in the Waxing Gibbous phase of its lunar cycle. It is 86% illuminated. Moon phases reveal the passage of time in ...

As the Apollo 15 mission made its return journey back to Earth from the Moon, Worden picked up a 70mm Hasselblad camera and snapped the crescent Earth, a delicate curved sliver in space ...

Editor and writer Mark Sinclair picks his favourite book cover designs of this year, plus opens with a few reflections on industry trends that have emerged in 2022 Last year I began CR’s round-up of ...

Learn more here. The “Fertile Crescent,” a term coined by University of Chicago Egyptologist James Henry Breasted, refers to a crescent-shaped region in Western Asia. Formed by the Tigris and ...

We're often advised not to judge a book by its cover. However, publishers put a lot of thought into creating book designs that make particular titles appeal to particular kinds of readers.

The half moon was the attribute of Luna and more specifically of Selene. It was later transferred to Diana (Artemis), offspring of the earth mother, and known not only as virgin but also as ...

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night ... sunlight reflected off Earth's oceans and icecaps. On Wednesday, September 4, a 3%-lit waxing crescent moon will be more easily ...

Unfortunately, skywatchers in the contiguous United States won’t be able to see it directly, but you can watch the eclipse in all its glory online. Cat Stevens’s 1970 hit song “Moonshadow” wasn’t ...