Recreating artificial solar eclipses in space could help astronomers decipher the inner workings of our sun much quicker than ...

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.

A s the Earth flies through space in its celestial dance around the sun, it's accompanied by its perpetual partner, the moon.

Although Earth and the moon are roughly the same distance from the sun — about 93 million miles (150 million kilometers) — a few factors influence why their temperatures are so different.

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 will get itself another moon this month, but only briefly. The "mini-moon" in the form of asteroid 2024 PT5 will stick around for just two months. Skip to main content ...

A March “Bloodworm Moon”, which is a phenomenon that will cause the moon to appear red during the total lunar eclipse, will take place Thursday, March 13 into Friday, March 14.