The series of test images showed the fully illuminated “dark side” of the moon that is never visible ... Sitting between the Earth and the Sun, DSCOVR’s primary mission is to monitor real-time solar ...

the Moon's relative motion in its orbit around Earth appears significantly faster than the movement of Mars in its orbit around the Sun. There are undoubtedly sharper images of Monday night's ...

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

Blue Ghost, the "little lander" from Firefly Aerospace that's headed to the moon, has captured the littlest lunar eclipse ...

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Oxygen isotope identity of the Earth and Moon with implications for the formation of the Moon and source of volatiles. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 2024; 121 (52) DOI: 10.1073 ...

ROBAYO / AFP) (Photo by LUIS ROBAYO/AFP via Getty Images) Despite the spectacular view from Earth, it was all an illusion, a line-of-sight phenomenon caused by the moon crossing the ecliptic—the ...

A small space rock that lingered near Earth last year and was ... However, this almost-mini-moon is still special as it is potentially a piece of the real moon, said Dr. Teddy Kareta, a ...

THE moon is just a chunk of the Earth and not mainly part of an ancient planet as previously thought, scientists claim. Experts had believed our satellite was created when hypothetical body Theia ...

The prevailing theory had been that the moon was the result of a collision between early Earth and the protoplanet Theia. New measurements indicate that the moon formed from material ejected from ...