The new moon of January will be at 7:36 a.m. Eastern Time on Jan. 29, according to the U.S. Naval Observatory, and two days ...

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.

An asteroid that orbited near Earth for a few months as a mini-moon may be a chunk of the moon that was blasted off by an ...

The small near-Earth asteroid 2024 PT5 has been creating a buzz among researchers. Discovered last year with the help of a ...

New moon: The moon is between Earth and the sun, and the side of the moon facing toward us receives no direct sunlight; it is lit only by dim sunlight reflected from Earth. Waxing crescent ...

I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the ...

The Blue Ghost lunar lander, built by the Texas-based company Firefly Aerospace for NASA, launched to space on Jan. 15, and ...

A chunk of space rock that visited near Earth's orbit last year was widely called a "mini-moon," a nickname that was more ...

Researchers have unveiled new findings that reshape our understanding of the Moon's formation and Earth's early hydration.

A solar eclipse occurs only during the new moon phase, when the Moon passes between the Earth and the Sun, blocking sunlight ...

A small space rock that lingered near Earth last year and was referred to as its temporary “mini-moon ... new, more distant orbit. But surprisingly, the object’s orbit around the sun ...