Because the Moon is over a quarter the diameter of Earth, the Earth-Moon system is often cited as the pairing in our Solar ...

The Moon will pass into Earth’s shadow and appear to turn red on the night of March 13 or early in the morning of March 14, depending on time zone. Here’s what you need to know about the total lunar ...

The full moon is the point where the entire face of the moon is illuminated by the sun as seen from Earth. "This is as close as we come to seeing the sun's illumination of the entire day side of ...

Only when the moon, Earth and the sun are perfectly aligned is the moon 100% full. And sometimes — once in a blue moon — the moon is full twice in a month (or four times in a season ...

Even though the Moon is so bright, it doesn't actually emit any light itself. What we see as moonlight is actually a reflection of light from the sun. (Even more amazing: the moon reflects only ...

On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid moving away from ...

While a solar eclipse involves the moon passing between the sun and the Earth, casting a shadow across our planet, a lunar eclipse involves the Earth passing directly between the moon and the sun.

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.

The company plans to capture HD imagery of a total lunar eclipse from the moon when Earth will move directly between our neighbor and the sun as it travels along its orbital path. On Earth, those in ...

The Moon will pass into Earth's shadow and appear to turn red on the night of March 13 or early in the morning of March 14, depending on ...

Lunar eclipses are the elaborate, delicate dance between the Earth, Sun and Moon. The Earth has two shadows. The darkest, central shadow is called the umbra, while scientists know the outer shadow ...