Before arriving at the moon, the small satellite mission will use the gravity of the sun, Earth, and moon over several months ...

The Blue Ghost mission launched on Wednesday, January 15, on board a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and is currently around halfway ...

The asteroid colliding with the Moon could release energy in upwards of 340 Hiroshima bombs with the spectacle very likely to ...

Its official name is the Apollo Lunar Sample Return Container No. 1008, but everyone, including Teasel Muir-Harmony, curator ...

Firefly Aerospace 's moon-bound spacecraft has provided the closest thing to a reflecting pool in space, showing Earth as an ...

These changes in appearance are the phases of the moon. As the moon orbits Earth, it cycles through eight distinct phases. The four primary phases of the moon (new moon, first quarter, full moon ...

Only when the moon, Earth and the sun are perfectly aligned is the moon 100% full. And sometimes — once in a blue moon — the moon is full twice in a month (or four times in a season ...

A full moon happens when the moon is directly opposite the sun from our perspective on Earth, fully illuminated by sunlight.

PT5, which almost became a temporary mini-moon to Earth, was recently found to be a broken-off part of the moon itself. This ...

There will also be two total lunar eclipses that occur during the March and September full moon events. A lunar eclipse, ...