The phenomenon of a Full Moon arises when our planet, Earth, is precisely sandwiched ... though it will eventually wink out as the background light overwhelms it. Sunrise: 7:14 A.M. Sunset ...

A private U.S. spacecraft has captured stunning images of Earth one week into its flight. Still circling Earth, Firefly ...

For a brief, but exciting, time last year, Earth had two moons. A small asteroid lingered close to our planet in its orbit ...

Scientists think a small rock discovered near Earth last August was hurled into space by an ancient impact on the lunar surface.

The prevailing theory had been that the moon was the result of a collision between early Earth and the protoplanet Theia. New measurements indicate that the moon formed from material ejected from ...

For a few months, Earth had a second moon — a tiny asteroid that may have been a piece of our own Moon ...

En route to land on the moon, a spacecraft snapped views of Earth eclipsing the sun. The Blue Ghost lunar lander, built by the Texas-based company Firefly Aerospace for NASA, launched to space on ...

The mooniness of a quasi-moon is simply an illusion. (The most famous quasi-moon of Earth is probably Kamo'oalewa, which could actually have true lunar origins.) Chilcutt submitted the name Cardea ...

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 ...

This full moon usually comes during a total lunar eclipse, when the Earth’s shadow causes the moon to appear red. This shadow gave the moon a ghostly appearance, and it seemed all red and brown ...

And the Air Force once proposed creating a weapons system on the Moon with the express purpose of bombing Earth. Task & Purpose has previously dived into the ambitious Space Race plans for ...