The moon is circling a point about 3,000 miles from our planet's center, just below its surface. Earth is wobbling around that point, too, making its own circles.

This animation shows images of the far side of the moon, illuminated by the sun, as it crosses between the DISCOVR spacecraft's Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (Epic) camera and telescope, and ...

Watch the moon appear to REVERSE as it transits the sun in mind-bending animation ... then the moon catching up as SDO swings around Earth’s dusk side,’ NASA explains.

The Earth orbits around the Sun, but the Moon is close enough to Earth that Earth’s gravitational pull captures it. ... This animation shows how the planets in our solar system formed.

Let's say we want to build a model of the sun and Earth alone. Earth has a radius of about 6,371 kilometers (3,959 miles), but let's represent this with a marble 1 centimeter in diameter.

From the moon, Earth will look like it's surrounded by a ring of fire — with its sunset and sunrise connected in a loop. NASA has an animation showing what Earth 's glowing red ring might look ...

NASA's Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) has taken some pretty amazing images from its position between the Earth and Sun. An animation released Wednesday by NASA shows images of the far ...

En route to land on the moon, a spacecraft snapped views of Earth eclipsing the sun.. The Blue Ghost lunar lander, built by the Texas-based company Firefly Aerospace for NASA, launched to space on ...

A NASA camera on board the Deep Space Climate Observatory satellite captured a rare lunar transit across the face of a sunlit Earth.The images, which feature a fully lit far side of the moon, were ...

Earth is about to gain a new “mini-moon,” but it won’t stay around for long. The newly discovered asteroid, named 2024 PT5, will temporarily be captured by Earth’s gravity and orbit our ...