The Moon is one of the most fascinating objects in the sky, and one of its most notable characteristics is the fact that it always shows the same face to Earth. This phenomenon, known as ...

The Keeble Observatory at Randolph-Macon College holds weekly public viewing during spring semester. Check their website ( or ...

"Athena continues to be in excellent health and is expected to send lunar orbit selfies over the next two days before a landing attempt on March 6." Intuitive Machines' second lunar lander has ...

As Earth's ever-present celestial companion, the moon exerts a constant influence on our planet, and its disappearance would ...

There are two types of eclipses—solar eclipses and lunar eclipses. A lunar eclipse occurs when the Earth comes in between the ...

The alignment only happens at special times, and that’s because the orbit of the Moon around the Earth is slanted with ...

Intuitive Machines' second lunar lander has made it to the moon. The Athena lander fired its engines for eight minutes and 12 seconds on Monday (March 3), slowing the spacecraft down and entering ...

Even small stars that orbit big stars would be moons! Clearly we’re running into trouble trying to hang the word moon on these objects. There’s also the problem that the arguments for what ...

NASA’s Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore have returned to Earth from a weeklong mission at the International Space Station that ...

Thanks to the Moon’s orbit around Earth, the angle of sunlight hitting the lunar surface and being reflected back to our planet changes. That creates different lunar phases. The next Full Moon ...