The Blue Ghost lunar lander, built by the Texas-based company Firefly Aerospace for NASA, launched to space on Jan. 15, and ...

If you are fortunate to live in the occultation zone and the weather cooperates, this upcoming event is one that really should not be missed.

For the past week, an uncrewed lunar lander has been journeying through outer space on a 60-day mission to the moon on behalf of NASA.

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

"O Sun," sighed the Moon, "I am so very weary of these battles ... talking idly to himself as he ruffled the surface of a lake behind a distant mountain. "Poor Wind," said the Moon, "I fear ...

The moon appears incredibly large in the foreground of the image since it is located much closer to Earth than Saturn, the sixth planet from the sun, which, by comparison, appears as nearly a speck ...

The moon makes for an excellent guide to see Mars in the night sky tonight. As the sun sets this evening (Feb. 9), the moon ...

An occultation is similar to a solar eclipse — when the moon passes across the sun. At 8:07 p.m., stargazers in Chicago should be able to see Mars disappear behind the moon. Mars will then ...

Aside from the sun and moon, there is no brighter object in the ... From Earth's perspective, Venus passed behind the sun on June 4. On March 25, 2025, it will pass between Earth and the sun.

The full moon will be at peak illumination at ... But they aren’t in a line stretching out, one behind another, from the sun, into 3-dimensional space,” according to EarthSky.

The umbra is where the Sun is completely hidden behind Earth. The real action begins when the Moon starts to disappear as it enters the umbra at about 3:48am PT. Watch live online https://t.co ...