Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have captured breathtakingly detailed images of two giant exoplanets ...

The Mastcam-Z camera on NASA’s Perseverance rover captured the Martian moon Phobos as it eclipsed the sun. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech | edited by Space.com Music: Mysterious Forest by Howard Harper-Barn ...

Earth’s companion has allowed astronomers to define lunar cycles, navigate without technology, and understand celestial ...

Astronauts aboard the space station have a unique view of Earth, and a time-lapse by NASA's Jonny Kim shows off its beauty.

The colors that we see in the Sun and the Moon vary based on various factors. The Sunlight is scattered by the Earth's atmosphere and is thus yellow. The dark, reflective surface of the Moon does ...

The photograph of the Earth taken from lunar orbit, sometimes known as “Earthrise”, is one of the most famous ever taken. However, while its beauty is widely agreed on, it gives little sense ...

Over 4.6 billion years ago, Earth took shape from a spinning cloud of dust and gas surrounding the young sun. Tiny particles ... a single massive body—the moon. That impact didn’t just create ...

Venus could make a brief appearance this weekend as it passes between the Earth and the sun ... brightest object in our sky after the sun and the moon. Look for locations with unobstructed ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Venus will pass between the Earth and sun on Saturday during what’s ... Venus has phases just like the moon. Before and after the conjunction, Venus looks like a thin crescent ...

enriching our knowledge of the interactions between Earth, the Moon, and the Sun. These observations contribute to the study of astronomical phenomena and the preparation of future lunar missions.

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 ...

Earth, sun, moon: three objects ... The problem again is the size of things. In my animation, not only are the objects too big but the orbital radius of the moon around Earth is way too big.