For those who were able to see it in person, Wednesday morning’s Blood Moon lunar eclipse didn’t disappoint as skywatchers spotted Earth’s always-orbiting pal turn a deep shade of red. Why that color?

Last week, NASA gave us a small cosmic gift — releasing a short GIF of the Moon passing in front of Earth. The GIF was made from a compilation of images taken by the Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera ...

When Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the Moon, they did what any tourist would do — take hundreds of photos. A few of these images are more famous than others, like the one of Aldrin with ...

On July 17 and July 18, the Moon was struck by two small rocks with enough energy to produce brilliant flashes of light. The two events took place almost exactly 24 hours apart and are believed to ...

Not long after the process of Daguerreotype photography was unveiled in 1839, early photographers turned their eyes upward, and a number of photographers, including Daguerre himself, tried to capture ...

This weekend the moon footprints of astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin turn 44. Armstrong and Aldrin descended from Apollo 11‘s lunar module onto the moon’s surface on July 21, 1969, becoming ...

The GIF was made from a YouTube video (which you can see below) about Jupiter's moon Europa. The moon holds a large ocean, which is thought to have more liquid water than Earth. It may harbor life, ...

Necmettin Karaca captured this spectacular view of the moon on Sept. 7 as the deepest part of Earth's shadow swept over the ...

NASA just released a pretty amazing GIF from a brand new, solar wind-monitoring satellite DSCOVR. From one million miles away, the satellite captured the far side of the moon as it passed in front of ...

Yesterday, Reddit user Jeckee posted this short GIF of the Earth as it appears to rise over the moon's horizon: The animation, which comes from this Apollo 10 footage, was just a bit too shaky for ...

The Gypsy Astronaut is a GIFs-only Tumblr with subjects ranging from 1920s silent film to Monty Python to Ghost World to David Bowie to miscellany so obscure it’s impossible to imagine that the source ...