To help inspire your little future scientists and astronauts, we've launched a fun new Earth Moon Sun paper craft to keep ...

The sun and moon are different sizes and located at different distances from the Earth, as confirmed by an array of measurement approaches including radar, lasers and calculations based on ...

The Moon does not make its own light like a star. The Moon appears bright because it reflects light from the Sun. Like the Earth, half of the Moon faces towards the Sun, and half faces away from it.

Earth, sun, moon: three objects in space whose interactions have a pretty big impact on our lives. Earth orbits the sun once a year, and it rotates on its axis about once a day (depending on your ...

The phases of the Moon are a result of the geometric interplay between the Sun, the Moon, and Earth. As the Moon orbits Earth, the nearside of the Moon always faces Earth. So as the Moon circles ...

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.

Instead, a quasi-moon follows a path around the Sun that closely matches ... and Rapid Response System) is a project designed to detect near-Earth objects such as asteroids or comets, which ...

The sun’s rays refracted through Earth’s atmosphere will cause a fiery glow across the moon’s surface Thursday night, just before the Earth’s shadow drapes across it. Not only will Friday ...

Over 4.6 billion years ago, Earth took shape from a spinning cloud of dust and gas surrounding the young sun. Tiny particles ... a single massive body—the moon. That impact didn’t just create ...