The moon changes each night, well, from our perspective it does anyway. This is because of the lunar cycle, a recurring ...

When the Sun hits the rims of the Blanchinus, La Caille, and Purbach craters at just the right angles during the Moon's cycle ...

A new molecule may soon enable tiny hard drives that store vastly more data. Withstanding extreme cold, it paves the way for ...

I f you look up at the Moon tonight through binoculars or a small telescope, you may be able to see an unusual feature: a ...

To get a glimpse of the “Swift Planet,” EarthSky suggests waiting for the sun to set before looking west for the planet ...

NASA, for its part, had already spotted the wreckage. About a week after the crash, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter passed ...

The moons that orbit Uranus are already known to have unusual characteristics: some are heavily cratered, others have ...

A NASA-funded plan to build a large radio telescope on the moon's far side is nearing final approval and could become a reality by the 2030s, researchers say. The ambitious project will help safeguard ...

It wasn’t until 1959 when the Soviet Luna 3 probe gave us our first glimpse of the Moon’s far side, and it wasn’t until 2019 when the Chang’e 4 mission made the first soft landing ...

Is there a dark side of the Moon? Strictly speaking, there is no dark side of the Moon. At any one time, half of the Moon is illuminated, and half is in darkness. A lunar day and night both last for ...