See the epic view of the moon and Earth captured by the Orion spacecraft ahead of its outbound powered flyby. Credit: NASA / time-lapsed by Space.com's Steve Spaleta Music: Kepler's Hope by Year of th ...
For more than sixty years, a tiny asteroid has been moving in step with Earth, hidden from view until recently. Astronomers ...
The moon and Venus will shine vividly alongside a bright star in the early morning in a celestial rendezvous that should be ...
On Aug. 23, 1966, NASA's Lunar Orbiter 1 sent back the first photo of Earth from the moon. It showed a grainy crescent Earth ...
NASA's Psyche captured images of Earth and our Moon from about 180 million miles (290 kilometers) away in July 2025. NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU The Psyche spacecraft is on a six-year journey to reach a ...
Learn more about tides and tidal bulge, and how they’re contributing to the moon drifting away.
To study the sun, scientists use a specialized telescope called a coronagraph. This instrument mimics a solar eclipse by ...
A recently observed object called 2025 PN7 was found orbiting near the Earth. The quasi-moon is expected to accompany our planet in a similar orbit for 60 years.