Data from NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) was used to create a water distribution map of the area near the moon's south pole. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center ...

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Firefly Aerospace 's moon-bound spacecraft has provided the closest thing to a reflecting pool in space, showing Earth as an ...

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Lunar: A history of the moon in myths, maps and matter tells the story of the coexistence between humanity and the celestial ...

A pair of astrophysicists with Aix- Marseille Université, CNRS, and Institut Universitaire de France have developed a new ...

The rise of the "Snow Moon" today sets in motion a lunar orbit that will result in a total lunar eclipse for North America on ...

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 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 ...

The night sky is the window to the rest of our universe but it’s also great for lovers. It’s great being in the dark with 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 ...