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

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

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 ...

The asteroid poses no threat to the moon or Earth. A newly discovered house-size asteroid is set to make a close, yet ...

An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of two new exoplanets, a few times more massive than Earth, orbiting a sun-like star known as HD 35843. The finding was reported in a ...

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

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

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 ...

These minimoons offer a unique opportunity to study the Moon's impact history and could serve as targets for future space missions. Minimoons are minor bodies temporarily held in Earth's gravity.

The moon is not capable of producing its own light, so what we see from Earth is a reflection of the sun's light shining on ...

Earth has only one natural satellite, the moon, which is relatively large ... from lunar impact ejecta that later returns after orbiting the sun. About 20% of these TBOs meet the stricter ...