An astral animated TED-Ed lesson written by Elise Cutts explains how the tides on Earth are impacted both by the sun and the ...

This easy Earth Moon Sun paper craft is perfect for some out of this world fun when learning about space. Here's how to make ...

Out past Neptune are countless small icy and rocky bodies called Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs), and many of these have moons ...

A new moon occurs when the moon is directly between Earth and the sun, with its shadowed side pointing towards us. You can see a new moon when it crosses the face of the sun during a solar eclipse.

What is a lunar eclipse and why does it make the moon look red? When the sun, Earth and moon all align so that the moon passes into the Earth's shadow, there's a lunar eclipse. During a total ...

As Firefly Aerospace prepared to close out a two-week mission on the moon, its lander had one final gift to beam home: the ...

Multiple spacecraft captured the moon's shadow sweeping across North America at more than 1,500 mph during the 2024 total ...

The name "pink moon" comes from the early spring bloom of a wildflower native to eastern North America called Phlox subulata, which is commonly known as creeping phlox or moss phlox. The flower was in ...

The moon appeared to turn red as Earth passed directly between it and the sun in what's known as a total lunar eclipse. Their perfect alignment darkens the moon, from the perspective of folks ...

Advertisement Advertisement As the moon orbits the Earth and the Earth orbits the sun, the three bodies are forever getting in one another’s way, periodically blocking the view from one to the ...

This week, the Earth will make its way between the sun and moon, resulting in a total lunar eclipse. As the Earth shifts in front of the sun, blocking its light, the moon will appear a dark ...

Venus Passes Between the Earth and Sun This Weekend -- but Don't Try to ... Venus has phases just like the moon. Before and after the conjunction, Venus looks like a thin crescent — though ...