A photograph supposedly showing the Earth from the surface of the moon is frequently shared on social media. In July 2019, for instance, the Facebook page Beautiful World shared the picture with ...

The moon's thin atmosphere, called an exosphere, has been a puzzle to science for some time. Two main processes were thought ...

From Earth, the cosmic lineup of the moon, Earth and sun caused the moon to appear with a striking red glow. But from the lunar surface, the effect would have been reminiscent of the total solar ...

It is true that crewed missions to the moon are expensive, difficult, and dangerous. And we now have a long history going back decades of reliable, dependable, capable robotic exploration, including ...

Look east around 4 a.m. local time, just before dawn, to see the slender form of the crescent moon climb above the horizon. Jupiter, appearing as a bright "star" will sit about 5 degrees to the right ...

On August 23, 1966, NASA’S Lunar Orbiter 1 captured the very first images of the Earth from the moon’s orbit. ... On August 23, at 1198 kilometers above the lunar surface, ...

Blue Ghost got her first diamond ring! Captured at our landing site in the Moon’s Mare Crisium around 3:30 am CDT, the photo shows the sun about to emerge from totality behind Earth Firefly ...

Through this first Moon-based telescope, stars (and the Earth) were captured from the lunar surface. Earth and the stars, captured from the Moon. Image credit: NASA ...

Despite orbiting nearly 240,000 miles from Earth, our Moon may be periodically mingling with our planet’s atmosphere. New research shows that oxygen from Earth could be journeying all the way ...

While the term “planet” has a clear definition, there is no strict definition of a moon. We can either say that there is one moon around Earth, or more than 160 million moons.