The full moon is the point where the entire face of the moon is illuminated by the sun as seen from Earth. "This is as close as we come to seeing the sun's illumination of the entire day side of ...

An asteroid that orbited near Earth for a few months as a mini-moon may be a chunk of the moon that was blasted off by an impact thousands of years ago.

Because the Moon is over a quarter the diameter of Earth, the Earth-Moon system is often cited as the pairing in our Solar ...

A chunk of space rock that visited near Earth's orbit last year was widely called a "mini-moon," a nickname that was more ...

15, and is slated to attempt a challenging moon landing on March 2. Now in Earth's orbit, the robotic craft has opportunities to capture poignant solar system imagery. "Witness Earth eclipsing the Sun ...

27 at 7:45 p.m. EDT (00:45 on Feb. 28). A new moon occurs when the moon is directly between Earth and the sun, with its shadowed side pointing towards us. You can see a new moon when it crosses ...

Pluto-Charon Formation Scenario Mimics Earth-Moon System Jan. 7, 2025 — A researcher ... Swirling Polar Vortices Likely Exist on the Sun Nov. 11, 2024 — Like the Earth, the Sun likely has ...

I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also applies to northern hemisphere mid-northern ...

The small near-Earth asteroid 2024 PT5 has been creating a buzz among researchers. Discovered last year with the help of a ...

But surprisingly, the object’s orbit around the sun is similar to Earth’s ... altered by a very close approach with the Earth-Moon system, and then recede away from us on the ‘outside ...

The Blue Ghost lunar lander has captured its first images of the moon from Earth’s orbit as well as a video of Earth ...