Saturn gets close to the moon tonight, and skywatchers in Florida, northwestern South America, the Caribbean and Central ...

That means that sometimes our lunar companion is closer to Earth, reaching its closest point ... The following image taken ...

The European Space Agency's Hera craft, en route to an asteroid, recently captured footage of our planet and the moon, set ...

The AFC view shows Earth in the bottom left with the moon near the center of the frame from a distance of nearly 1 million miles, or approximately 1.6 million kilometers. Bright white swirling ...

The Bioceramic MoonSwatch MISSION TO EARTHPHASE celebrates our two nearest celestial bodies, the Earth and the Moon. Swatch’s ...

The moon's orbit around Earth is elliptical -- oval-shaped -- positioning ... This October Hunter's Moon will provide the biggest and brightest show of the year, making it a must-see for skywatchers.

On September 29, 2024, Earth captured a tiny asteroid named 2024 PT5, turning it into a temporary mini-moon. It won't be around much longer.

Its subsequent uncrewed Chang'e-6 mission, completed in June, made China the first country to bring back rocks from the side of the moon facing away from Earth. The missions demonstrated China's ...

The images below show the day-by-day phases of the Moon in November. The Full Moon this month is Friday, Nov. 15. Note: Moon phases in the calendar vary in size due to the distance from Earth and ...

Earth’s newly captured mini-moon 2024 PT5 will depart in November, highlighting the fascination with transient asteroids.

"A supermoon is the result of a full moon occurring when the moon is near its closest point to the Earth in its orbit," Anna Gammon-Ross, senior planetarium astronomer at the Royal Museums ...

The Hunter's supermoon was suitably imposing and Kaiju-like, as seen in Toronto, Ontario in Canada, as it was imaged by Mert Alper Dervis. Look closely, and you will see a helicopter crossing the ...