En route to land on the moon, a spacecraft snapped views of Earth eclipsing the sun. The Blue Ghost lunar lander, built by ...

When they do, we have a lunar eclipse as Earth's shadow ... different angles of its illumination by the sun. As it orbits Earth, the moon will show different illuminated parts based on the angle ...

Late on March 13 and on into the early hours of March 14 the moon will turn a spooky red color in the skies above the U.S.

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

On January 18, the team at Firefly carried out Blue Ghost’s first engine burn, firing up the lander’s thrusters and main ...

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.

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

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