The sun, Earth and the moon are aligned, but because the moon’s orbit is not exactly in the same plane as Earth’s orbit around the sun, they rarely form a perfect line. When they do ...

Thanks to the Moon’s orbit around Earth, the angle of sunlight hitting the lunar surface and being reflected back to our planet changes. That creates different lunar phases. The next Full Moon ...

If you are fortunate to live in the occultation zone and the weather cooperates, this upcoming event is one that really ...

Each orbit will get longer until it can then get close enough to the moon to pivot to an orbit around it. Blue Ghost will spend four days in transit to the moon and then 16 days in actual orbit.

As 2025 begins, so comes the first full moon of the year ... C/2024 G3 (ATLAS), was discovered in April 2024 and has an orbit that spans around 160,000 years, according to the Planetary Society.

Also sharing a ride with Athena will be NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer, a satellite designed to orbit the moon and use remote sensing to detect water. If both of those NASA payloads succeed ...

Future missions led by Firefly will be to the moon's far side and will include delivering a satellite that will orbit the region. The Blue Ghost space craft will attempt a lunar landing on Sunday ...

In Vedic astrology, Rahu and Ketu are known as the lunar nodes—points where the Moon's orbit intersects the Earth's ecliptic ...

It took a quarter of a century, but artist Mikael Genberg may finally see his dream realized: a red Swedish house, on the moon.

Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket lifts off from Launch Complex 36 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux) ...

With its vision of setting up a space station by 2035 and sending humans to the moon by 2040, ISRO has been working on key technologies to realise the vision, such as a new heavy-lift launch vehicle ...

You can catch the first full moon of the year on Monday night. January's wolf moon will officially be the first full moon of 2025 at 4:27 p.m. CT. Space is a big place, so keen stargazers will ...