During the day, folks can call this a 'sun halo', but at night and when associated with the moon, try a 'lunar halo'. These ...

January's full moon passed in front of Mars, a rare occultation. Depending on where you are viewing from, it will happen ...

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The dark skies during a new moon provide ideal conditions for spotting skywatching targets that would otherwise be outshined by moonlight. The next new moon will occur on Thursday, Feb. 27 at 7:45 ...

The moon is an integral part of the sky above us. Over time, each month’s full moon has acquired a unique name of its own: ...

One week ago, a private lunar lander left the ground on a nearly 7-week journey to reach the surface of the moon. The launch may not have had the headline-grabbing power of last year's historic ...

These include Chandrayaan-4, as part of which samples will be brought back to the Earth from the Moon; the Bharatiya Antariksha Station (BAS), a planned modular space station to be constructed by ...

The two landers blasted toward the moon, lifting off in the middle of the night from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from pad 39A with a payload of a pair of lunar ...

Not one but two private firms each launched spacecraft to the Moon today — a sign of companies’ growing interest in lunar exploration, a risky enterprise long dominated by government agencies.

Listen to Story The moon will be just hours past its full phase Mars will shine at its brightest for the year Mars is currently positioned opposite the sun A rare celestial event will captivate ...

Japanese space exploration company ispace is all set to launch its second lunar lander early Wednesday morning (Jan. 15), but what will the spacecraft carry with it to the moon? The ispace ...