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 ...

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 ...

Out past Neptune are countless small icy and rocky bodies called Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs), and many of these have moons ...

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 Athena lunar lander has captured its first up-close look at Earth's cosmic neighbor ... to help correct its moon-bound trajectory before making it to lunar orbit Monday, according to NASA.

“On Earth we can use GNSS signals to navigate in everything from smartphones to airplanes,” Kevin Coggins, deputy associate administrator for NASA’s SCaN (Space Communications and Navigation) Program, ...

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 ...

But because the moon's orbit is slightly tilted relative to Earth's orbit around the sun, it doesn't block out the sun on every orbit, hence why not every new moon results in a solar eclipse ...

"The simplest definition [of a moon] would be an object that is in ... there are currently thousands of human-made satellites in orbit around Earth that satisfy the definition above but are ...

If successful, Athena's landing will be the second by a private American company this year. Firefly Aerospace was the first ...

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.

This is when a so-called “blood moon” lunar eclipse plays out, visible in North and South America, parts of Africa, the Pacific, and Europe. So what causes a lunar eclipse, when is the best time to ...