The Moon does not make its own light like a star. The Moon appears bright because it reflects light from the Sun. Like the Earth, half of the Moon faces towards the Sun, and half faces away from it.

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 ...

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The moon is slowly ... nearly 16 times closer to Earth than it is today. As it cooled, the moon backed away, retreating thousands of miles into the distance. A new animation depicts that process ...