The full moon is the point where the entire face of the moon is illuminated by the sun as seen from Earth. "This is as close as we come to seeing the sun's illumination of the entire day side of ...

An asteroid that orbited near Earth for a few months as a mini-moon may be a chunk of the moon that was blasted off by an impact thousands of years ago.

A new moon occurs when the moon is directly between Earth and the sun, with its shadowed side pointing towards us. You can see a new moon when it crosses the face of the sun during a solar eclipse.

The moon will be opposite the sun Monday at 5:27 p.m. ET, according to NASA. This is when the moon reveals its full dayside to Earth. The moon will appear full for around three days. Mars won't ...

The Sun's solar winds bombard the Moon ... Additionally, understanding how environmental factors like Earth's magnetotail impact the Moon could inform the design of habitats and technologies ...

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander, a private spacecraft hired by NASA to take experiments to the moon, got a rare front-row seat of the spectacle in space. The phenomenon occurred when the blue ...

2025—the Earth is precisely between the sun and a full moon. The Earth projects its shadow onto the lunar surface, and the only sunlight that gets to the lunar surface is filtered by Earth’s ...