He covers skywatching, human spaceflight, exploration as well as space science ... Moon. The full moon is the point where the entire face of the moon is illuminated by the sun as seen from Earth.

An asteroid that orbited near Earth for a few months as a mini-moon may be a chunk of the moon that was blasted off by an impact thousands of years ago.

A new study implies that in the past, moons in our solar system may have had rings just like planets do — deepening the mystery of why no ringed moons exist today.

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the path of the sun through the sky and the plane of the solar system, according to Live Science's sister site Space.com. That means all four stars frequently appear close to the moon and the ...

Chilcutt was the winner of a naming contest created by the International Astronomical Union — the organization in charge of formally naming space phenomena — and the popular science podcast ...

Space agencies and thousands of astronomers are working against the clock to determine the trajectory of the body before it ...

Private space company Firefly is guiding its Blue Ghost lander through space to attempt its first moon landing March ... majestic moment when Earth eclipsed the sun. "Right now, we are in a ...

Pluto-Charon Formation Scenario Mimics Earth-Moon System Jan. 7 ... Dec. 12, 2024 — Stars similar to the Sun produce a gigantic outburst of radiation on average about once every hundred years ...

Solaris promises to be a major platform for education and research, with a particular focus on academic research into the Sun ...

Understand the moon phases and you can wager a pretty good guess for when the next full moon is just by looking up.

On Sunday’s episode of The Excerpt podcast: The International Space Station, orbiting approximately 250 miles above Earth ...