The moon reaches its farthest point from Earth tonight, known as apogee, making it appear ever so slightly smaller in the ...

The moon's orbit is elliptical, or oval-shaped, meaning as its distance from our planet changes, its apparent size changes, too — but only slightly. If you're an avid moon-watcher, you might ...

Earth is, simply put, a ball of confusion these days for most of us—from its pandemics to its politics and everything in ...

A micromoon will rise in the night sky on Feb. 18, appearing smaller to the naked eye than an average lunation yet boast ...

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander lowered its orbit around the moon Tuesday (Feb. 18), sending back gorgeous footage from ...

The lander, Blue Ghost, fired its engines for four minutes Thursday to propel the spacecraft into lunar orbit ahead of a ...

Cheyenne’s Marcy Curran, the cofounder of the Cheyenne Astronomy Society and an editor of a major astronomy publication, has ...

Don't worry. Asteroid 2024 YR4 now has a 99.72% chance of missing Earth in 2032. If you've been worrying about reports of a ...

The phenomenon of a Full Moon ... sky each week. Here’s the complete list of Full Moons this year and their traditional names. (All times Eastern; * denotes a Super Moon.) The images below show ...

Mars, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn should be visible to the naked eye, but with a telescope you can spot Neptune and Uranus.

On the 95th anniversary of its discovery, Pluto remains one of the most beloved and enigmatic worlds in our solar system, ...

“New Horizons shattered a major paradigm of planetary science,” says Alan Stern, the mission’s principal investigator. “Pluto ...