You've heard of a supermoon, now get ready to see the exact opposite over Texas. Spring's first full moon, known as the Pink Moon, will light up the sky on April 12. The full moon occurs just 22 hours before reaching apogee,

When the dark side of the Moon is facing Earth we cannot see it; this is called a new moon. As the Moon starts to orbit Earth we can see more and more of the lit side. At various stages in its ...

In contrast, during a total solar eclipse — which is preceded by a partial eclipse — the moon completely covers the sun, revealing the sun's outer atmosphere, called the corona, during totality. That's the only time it's safe to look at a solar eclipse with the naked eye, since all of the sun's light is blocked.

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

Chun Wang, a Chinese-born crypto entrepreneur, paid an undisclosed amount for the mission. Some satellites are already in polar orbit, and researchers called it a routine flight.

a moon-bound NASA orbiter known as the Lunar Trailblazer, a commercial deep space asteroid prospecting probe named Odin, and a privately-built space tug designed to work in Earth orbit.

The US astronauts stranded on the International Space Station are home at last — more than nine months after their days-long jaunt into orbit turned into a headline-grabbing space odyssey.

For example, the sun’s gravity tugs harder on the moon than Earth’s does! So does the moon orbit the sun or our planet? Well, the trick here is that both Earth and the moon orbit the sun together.

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 ...

The dark skies during a new moon provide ideal conditions for spotting skywatching targets that would otherwise be outshined by moonlight. The next new moon will occur on Saturday, March 29, at 6: ...