The large golden aura is formed from the incoming light reflected off the sun-side of the occulter, a device that blocks the ...

We've even been asked if you could run solar cells during the long lunar night on reflected earthlight, so we decided to ...

A new NASA mission to map the solar wind has returned some of its first images from its position in low Earth orbit. The ...

The colors that we see in the Sun and the Moon vary based on various factors. The Sunlight is scattered by the Earth's atmosphere and is thus yellow. The dark, reflective surface of the Moon does ...

Venus currently rises in the east at 3:35 a.m. local daylight time. The eerie, low glimmering of Venus is a harbinger of daybreak, which begins exactly at that same time. In a telescope, Venus's ...

NASA's PUNCH mission, a tiny constellation of four satellites, captured a photo of the moon drifting across the sky through a ...

Half a century after the Apollo astronauts left the last bootprints in lunar dust , the Moon has once again become a ...

The moon will rise with Venus and the ice giant Neptune in the pre-dawn sky on Thursday, May 22.

Discover interesting facts about how the moon formed, what it's made out of, and the many missions humans have launched to ...

The phenomenon of a Full Moon arises when our planet, Earth, is precisely sandwiched between the Sun and the Moon. This alignment ensures the entire side of the Moon that faces us gleams under ...