The moon reached its peak brightness at 8:53 a.m. EST (1353 GMT) on Feb. 12, but local moonrise and moonset times will depend ...

A total lunar eclipse occurs when the Earth moves directly between the sun and the full moon, casting its During totality — ...

Before arriving at the moon, the small satellite mission will use the gravity of the sun, Earth, and moon over several months ...

The Blue Ghost lunar lander, built by the Texas-based company Firefly Aerospace for NASA, launched to space on Jan. 15, and ...

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander, a private spacecraft hired by NASA to take experiments to the moon, got a rare ...

For a brief, but exciting, time last year, Earth had two moons. A small asteroid lingered close to our planet in its orbit ...

February's full Snow Moon will have a royal companion as it rises alongside Regulus, a star nicknamed "Heart of the Lion", ...

On January 18, the team at Firefly carried out Blue Ghost’s first engine burn, firing up the lander’s thrusters and main ...

But surprisingly, the object’s orbit around the sun is similar to Earth ... asteroid might become a temporary mini-moon whirling around Earth, the space rock maintained a horseshoe orbit ...

For most of history, the Moon was regarded as a mysterious and powerful object. Then scientists made it into a destination ...

Humans are inching closer to living beyond Earth, but sustaining life on the moon or Mars requires a critical resource: water ...

A chunk of space rock that visited near Earth's orbit last year was widely called a "mini-moon," a nickname that was more appropriate than thought.