Andrew James McCarthy, frames the space station with Shackleton Crater, a famous landmark on the moon near its south pole.

Though the images are reminiscent of the gray scale of black and white ... our own sun. This combination of scientific explanation and artist’s eye makes for a book built for slow perusal, perhaps on ...

The Blue Ghost lunar lander, built by the Texas-based company Firefly Aerospace for NASA, launched to space on Jan. 15, and ...

Blue Ghost was designed to operate on the surface of the moon for one lunar day, or about two Earth weeks. Then, the sun will set on the moon and the lander's batteries will deplete within a few ...

A small space rock that lingered near Earth last year and was referred to as its temporary “mini-moon” may actually ... the object’s orbit around the sun is similar to Earth’s, suggesting ...

Our Sun will become a white dwarf in about 7 billion years. At that point, it will no longer produce energy through nuclear fusion, having exhausted its fuel (hydrogen and helium). Just like the ...

A small asteroid lingered close to our planet in its orbit around the Sun, temporarily caught by Earth’s gravity to become a far away mini-moon. A closer look at the space rock reveals a rather ...

The phenomenon of a Full Moon arises when our planet, Earth, is precisely sandwiched between the Sun and the Moon ... appears to hang just below the blue-white star as they hover about 30 ...

By Becky Ferreira For a few months last fall, a school-bus-size space rock named 2024 PT5 gained fame as Earth’s new “mini-moon.” Astronomers rushed to study the object while it was still ...

This lunar phase sees the moon roughly between the Earth and the sun, making the moon invisible but the night skies free from moonlight. That makes tonight the very best of the month for ...