In its dying moments, the Blue Ghost lunar lander captured the first high-definition images of a sunset on the Moon. The lunar nightfall differs subtly from an Earthly sunset, and the images could ...

Multiple spacecraft captured the moon's shadow sweeping across North America at more than 1,500 mph during the 2024 total solar eclipse, as millions of people looked up to witness totality.

The moon dims, the meteors fly, and the planets dance—these are the most exciting celestial events happening this month.

The leading explanation for all of these mysteries is known as the giant impact hypothesis. According to this story, when the ...

The total lunar eclipse that unveiled a reddish blood moon overnight to nearly half of Earth looked a bit different from the vantage of our celestial neighbor. The Blue Ghost lunar lander ...

A lunar eclipse occurs when Earth is between the sun and moon and the three celestial objects line up in a nearly perfect row, with Earth in the middle, so that the moon passes into our planet’s ...