This alignment blocks direct sunlight, causing the Moon to take on a reddish hue—a phenomenon resulting from Earth's atmosphere filtering out shorter-wavelength blue light, leaving the longer ...

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander just sent back a stunning ... But our planet's atmosphere still allows red wavelengths of light to squeeze through and travel through space, illuminating the moon ...

allowing us to see the moon during a lunar eclipse. The immediate question, of course, is why that light is red. The basic answer is that blue light has a relatively hard time making it through ...

The privately-owned lander turned its cameras toward Earth as our planet cast its shadow over the moon. It’s not the first spacecraft to do so.