Understand the moon phases and you can wager a pretty good guess for when the next full moon is no matter where we are in the ...

We're probably still safe from this space rock, but at the moment, the chances of having a very bad encounter in 2032 have ...

Possibly one of the best-known constellations in the northern sky, Ursa Major—or the Great Bear—contains an asterism of seven ...

There will also be two total lunar eclipses that occur during the March and September full moon events. A lunar eclipse, ...

Last year, a pair of researchers claimed that the shockwaves of the shutdown could be felt as far as the moon, causing a ...

The rocket-powered Gracie will conduct five hops during its short lunar stay, including one into the depths of a shadowy ...

Thanks to the Moon’s orbit around Earth, the angle of sunlight hitting the lunar surface and being reflected back to our planet changes. That creates different lunar phases. The next Full Moon ...

Radiation belts are a normal part of the architecture of a planet with a global magnetic field. Stars are constantly leaking particles, borne by a stellar wind; these stream out and, where they ...

A recently spotted space rock has suddenly climbed atop astronomers’ threat lists. NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies calculates that the nearly 300-foot-wide asteroid 2024 YR now has ...

Look closely at this image, stripped of its caption, and join the moderated conversation about what you and other students see. By The Learning Network A breakup? The end of a friendship? The ...

However, it completes this cycle much faster than the sun, doing so every month. Due to the moon’s orbit being tilted at 5.1 degrees to the ecliptic, its range of motion is even greater than that of ...

We have the full Snow Moon to look forward to in the week ahead. And thanks to fortuitous timing it will look equally "full" to the unaided eye two nights in a row, on Feb. 11 and 12. That's because ...