You can probably conjure this vision of the moon—hold the image in your mind and transmit it off this planet and onto our shining opalescent companion. Peaks in the sun? I’ve seen that. This week, we ...

When people look up at the night sky and see the Moon glowing with a deep crimson or coppery hue, it feels almost otherworldly. This rare celestial sight, popularly known as the Red Moon or Blood Moon ...

HOUSTON — After five days in space and five decades of waiting, human astronauts just got an unprecedented view of the moon. With Earth in the rearview mirror, the Artemis II mission’s Orion ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While black moons are invisible to us, new moons can be seen during a solar eclipse like this one in April 2024. (Mak Studio/Getty ...

For the first time in more than 50 years, humans are on the verge of returning to the moon. The Artemis II mission is preparing to launch as soon as March 6 to bring four astronauts in a loop around ...

For decades, scientists have puzzled over why lunar rocks show signs of strong magnetism when the moon itself has no global magnetic field today. New simulations suggest the answer may lie in a ...

In August, an amateur French astronomer, Adrien Coffinet, messaged an email list dedicated to asteroid and comet research with an announcement. He’d identified a new quasi-moon: “2025 PN7 seems to be ...

On April 6, 2026, the Artemis II astronauts flew around the moon, allowing them to observe and photograph the moon's far side, commonly referred to as its dark side. Following the flyby, people on ...

Keep your eyes along the horizon on Monday night to see the first supermoon of the year. October’s full moon, also called the harvest moon, will be visible from Monday night into early Tuesday. The ...