Europa Clipper will peer beneath the moon’s icy crust where an ocean is thought to be sloshing fairly close to the surface.

A massive NASA spacecraft is ready to set sail for Jupiter and its moon Europa. The craft, named Europa Clipper, will determine if conditions there could support life.

A NASA spacecraft is ready to set sail for Jupiter and its moon Europa, one of the best bets for finding life beyond Earth.

the moon, and sometimes special events like meteor showers. Observing the night sky can be done with no special equipment, although a sky map can be very useful, and a good telescope or binoculars ...

Editor's note: If you get a great picture of the moon during September's partial lunar eclipse, and would like to share it with Space.com's readers, send your photo(s), comments, and your name and ...

It typically rises in the early evening around sunset, which meant farmers could finish harvesting their fall crops by its bright moonlight, hence the name. This year, the harvest moon will ...

This year September’s moon was the harvest moon. Alternative names for the hunter’s moon are the “drying rice moon,” “sanguine moon,” “seed fall moon” and “blood moon” (which ...

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October's full moon will have some company this month now that a mini-moon is in Earth's orbit. Here's what you should know ...

NASA has developed a process that creates more accurate solar eclipse maps, the agency recently announced - and the shadow cast by the moon in the new, better maps might not look quite as you'd ...

The newer mapping method takes elevation on Earth and the moon’s topography into consideration. NASA has developed a process ...