The new moon on Saturday, Aug. 23, will be a seasonal “black moon” — a rare occurrence when four new moons fall within a single season. It has an intruiging future echo.

The August 2025 new moon is special, even if we can't see it. This is a black moon. Here's what that means and how it may impact your sign. The new moon occurs on Aug. 22 at 11:06 p.m. PT and Aug. 23 at 2:06 a.m. ET. It comes down to timing. A black moon is the fourth new moon in a season that has had three full moons.

“No other planet has as many small inner moons as Uranus, and their complex inter-relationships with the rings hint at a chaotic history that blurs the boundary between a ring system and a system of moons,” SETI Institute researcher Matthew Tiscareno said in a statement for NASA.

Save the world and our lunar history in Lunar Strike, the 2026 sci-fi narrative adventure game that was just announced at the Future Games Show.

Having the massive, hundreds-of-miles-wide Hurricane Erin swing by your coastline is already a recipe for tidal troubles, with 12- to 20-foot waves and storm surge pushing ocean waters toward the mid-Atlantic shores.

The second and final 'blood moon' total lunar eclipse of 2025 is coming on the night of Sept. 7-8. Here's where the celestial spectacle will be visible — and how to watch it if you're not in the path.

South Korea's KASA is just one international space agency that will fly cubesats on the mission; Germany's DLR will also contribute its TACHELES cubesat. While Artemis 2 will send astronauts around the moon, the cubesats will have their own science objectives.