The moon is not capable of producing its own light, so what we see from Earth is a reflection of the sun's light shining on the moon. Still, the moon is orbiting around the Earth while the Earth ...

The short answer is that you would weigh roughly one-sixth your Earth weight on the Moon. So if your bathroom scale reads 180 pounds (81.6 kilograms) on Earth, it would read 30 pounds (13.6 kg ...

A "blood moon" happens when Earth's moon is in a total lunar eclipse. While it has no special astronomical significance, the view in the sky is striking as the usually whitish moon becomes red or ...

The total lunar eclipse that unveiled a reddish blood moon overnight to nearly half of Earth looked a bit different from the vantage of our celestial neighbor. The Blue Ghost lunar lander ...

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.

Firefly Aerospace, a private space company, said it just completed the longest commercial operation on the Moon to date ...

The Earth orbits the sun, and the moon orbits the Earth. When the sun, Earth and moon are lined up in space so that the Earth blocks the sunlight from hitting the moon’s surface, then a total ...

When the moon gets spooky on Thursday night, don't panic. It's not an omen, it's just an eclipse. That's because, even though the Earth is casting its shadow on the moon, the sun is still passing ...

Earth’s shadow will block most of the light that illuminates the lunar surface, creating what is known as a blood moon. By Katrina Miller March 14: This event has concluded and you can see ...