A solar eclipse occurs when the moon positions itself between Earth and the sun, casting a shadow over Earth. We explore the ...

Earth is the only planet in our solar system with a single moon, making it a rare phenomenon for a planet of its kind.

First views of the September 2025 partial solar eclipse A deepening eclipse. Our first view was captured from Time and Date's ...

Astronomers explain that the Sun looks darkened during a partial eclipse because the Moon essentially "bites" into it. The degree of darkness depends on how much of the Sun’s surface is obscured from ...

Quantum cryogenics manufacturer Bluefors is betting big on Interlune, a startup that aims to extract Helium-3 from the lunar ...

The U.S. and China are in a sprint toward manned missions to the lunar surface by the end of this decade, with sights on 2029 ...

The company’s Starship rocket, which has suffered a series of recent test explosions, is still years away from being ready ...

The Earth stands alone in the solar system as a habitable world, as far as we know. But that doesn’t mean we don’t get visitors, most often in the form of (usually harmless) asteroids. Some even ...

A cryogenics company called Bluefors needs ten thousand liters of helium-3 from the Moon to be delivered each year from 2028 ...

In March 1968, the Soviet Union had a partial success with Zond 4. With this launch, they were able to take the spacecraft ...

A gem of a find by The Public Domain Review of a collection from the Rijksmuseum: photographs of plaster models of the ...

Experiments on Earth indicate some common species of bacteria and fungi could survive for several days on the moon's surface, ...