Gaia has transformed the way the Milky Way galaxy is viewed. Its data allowed scientists to recreate not just a 3D map of the ...

Since then, Blue Ghost — which is named after a species of firefly found in the Southwest — has been sending back stunning images of both the Earth and moon. One clip posted online Wednesday ...

For example, there are currently thousands of human-made satellites in orbit around Earth that ... known quasi-moon, Zoozve, but this does not count because it actually orbits the sun, not Venus.

Usually, a full moon has no eclipse because the moon orbits in a slightly different plane than the Earth and the sun. However, at times the planes coincide. Earth passes in between the moon and ...

While the car-sized spacecraft flew around the Mars system, flight controllers on Earth temporarily lost communication with ...

A new moon occurs when the moon is directly between Earth and the sun, with its shadowed side pointing towards us. You can see a new moon when it crosses the face of the sun during a solar eclipse.

On this date in March, the first total lunar eclipse in years will occur, visible from the U.S. and bringing a captivating red moon to the night sky.

13, 2025 — Astronomers have constructed the first detailed 3D map of the properties of cosmic ... These two exoplanets, a super-Earth and a sub-Neptune, are common in the galaxy, yet are absent ...

Sounds unreal? Welcome to the world of the midnight sun. In certain spots near the Arctic and Antarctic Circles, the tilt of the Earth keeps the sun visible for weeks or even months at a time.

Life on the moon ... 3D printing in a micro-gravity environment reminiscent of the moon. The project stems from the need to provide spare parts on the moon that have not been flown in through Earth.

All you have to do is look up. Lunar eclipses take place when Earth is positioned between the Sun and the Moon, casting its shadow on the surface of our natural satellite. Lunar eclipses happen ...

The moon looks red during a lunar eclipse because the sunlight that isn’t blocked is filtered through the Earth’s atmosphere, according to NASA. The blue part scatters away and only the red ...