Apparently, it’s moving further away from the Earth each year. At an annual rate of 3.82 centimeters, the moon's creeping ...

China has fired a precision laser across 80,778 miles (130,000 km) of space in broad daylight, bounced it off a satellite ...

May's Flower full Moon is a micromoon because it occurs during apogee, when the Moon is at its farthest point in its orbit of Earth.

The new supermoon will be the closest one in 2025, with the moon 221,917 miles from Earth, according to EarthSky. According to Time and Date, "the alignment of the sun, the moon, and Earth leaves ...

Earth has only one natural satellite, the moon, which is relatively large compared to its parent planet. It orbits Earth at ...

Juno sheds light on Jupiter’s polar storms and Io’s hidden lava, offering insights at two of the solar system’s most extreme ...

May’s night sky is packed with astronomical events—find out when and where to look for meteor showers, ancient star clusters, ...

Catch some morning meteors, see the Moon reach First Quarter, and watch Mars visit the Beehive in the sky this week.

Today, we know that M44 contains about 1,000 gravitationally bound stars, and that it’s about 577 light-years away from Earth ...

a new Moon is invisible to Earth because the Moon's night side faces our planet while the far side is illuminated by the Sun. Earthsky.org reports there are five Supermoons happening during the ...

A group of swirling storms at Jupiter's north pole are bouncing off each other, like bumper cars at the fairground.

Starting tonight and continuing for two weeks, we can watch the moon travel from just past new moon all the way to full moon.