Luna 2 was the first human-made object to reach a celestial body in space, though in a rather brutal way: At a speed of around 12,000 kilometers per hour, the probe hit the moon on Sept.

The proposed Thirty Meter Telescope could make viewing objects on the moon possible ... an imaging satellite that orbits ...

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spotted a bizarre sliver of an object speeding above the lunar ... becoming South Korea's ...

The sheer number of objects suggests scientists will soon have to grapple with what counts as a moon versus what’s just a ...

Katherine Wuerstle saw this over Bethlehem. A halo around the moon in Lehigh County. Veronica Eunice also saw the halo. Maria Alicea saw this halo over the Lehigh Valley as well. Wendy Sawyer saw ...

The Moon orbits close orbitAn orbit is a regular, repeating path that one object in space takes around another one. the Earth. This takes 28 days or one lunar month. The Moon reflects light from ...

As such, lunar eclipses can only happen around the time of the full moon, because that is when ... reliable and quick views of celestial objects. For a more in-depth look at our Celestron NexStar ...

The objects around the ringed planet are tiny ... Many of these moons are rocks only a few miles across — small compared with our moon, which is 2,159 miles across. But as long as they have ...

Forward-looking: The asteroid that has 1-in-43 odds of hitting Earth in 2032 has an even smaller chance of colliding with something else instead: our moon. The object, around half the size of a ...

Turns out, there’s a lot more floating around the planet Saturn than those famous rings. Space scientists announced last week they’ve discovered Saturn has 128 more moons, for a total of 274, far more ...

Sunbeams around the darkest part of the Earth's shadow result in red coloring when hitting the edges of said shadow just right. When aligned in a syzygy, all three planetary objects show us the ...