Credit: NASA During a total solar eclipse, the bright disk of the Sun is blocked, and the faint outer atmosphere becomes ...

March’s “worm moon” sets behind Rocca Calascio castle and village in L’Aquila, Italy. Photograph by Lorenzo Di Cola, NurPhoto/Getty Images Earth’s moon phases cycle from month to month, waning and ...

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U.S. scientists confirm Earth's new quasi-moon, 2025 PN7, sharing our orbit for 60 more years. Learn how quasi-moons work and ...

NOAA's GOES-19 satellite may have captured the first natural solar eclipse from space, with the moon's odd path explained by a spacecraft maneuver.

Researchers are discussing 2025 PN7, a small celestial body that's following a similar orbital path to our planet's without being gravitationally tied to Earth ...

Artemis III is planned for 2027. If it stays on schedule, it will be the mission that puts humans back on the moon for the first time in 55 years. The crew plans to touch down in one of 13 planned ...

Scientists from a San Antonio-based research hub have found a new moon orbiting Uranus using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Southwest Research Institute said it discovered a previously unknown ...

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"The profile of the occultation was most consistent with it being a new satellite — a new moon — going around Quaoar." ...