As of Tuesday, July 22, the moon phase is Waning Crescent, and it is almost completely hidden to us on Earth. The moon will ...

Learn the differences between our Earth, the Sun and the Moon. Then explore how together they create day and night and our different seasons with their orbits.

I'm going to be the Earth, and this is the Moon. The Moon in the sky is lit up by the Sun. The Moon reflects the Sun's light, but the light can't go round corners, so only half of the Moon is lit ...

Get ready to scan the skies for the second supermoon of the year. June’s strawberry moon will appear opposite the sun and reach its peak illumination at 7:52 a.m. EDT Tuesday, and it will remain ...

While blasting moon dust into the void between Earth and the sun is technologically feasible, it’s unlikely that this plan will move beyond the conceptual phase anytime soon.

The demoted planet’s moon is also large relative to its size, much like Earth’s, and its surface is not nearly as ancient as many of the objects in the Kuiper belt, which lies beyond it.

The moon is thought to be the aftermath of a giant impact. According to a new theory, there were two giant impacts in a row, separated by 100,000 to 1 million years, involving a Mars-sized body ...

Fact check: Flat Earth claim based on gas pressure fails to account for gravity's impact. Researchers have confirmed the sun and moon's actual sizes and positions in space through various ...

For the last two and a half years, the Earth may have had two moons. There’s the obvious one that raises the tides and can often be seen during the day, and now researchers have identified a ...

Tidal Forces. The moon holds the primary influence over Earth’s tides due to its proximity, but it’s not the only factor. The sun, with a mass about 27 million times that of the Moon, also ...

The Moon's phases are caused by changing amounts of sunlight reflecting off its surface as it orbits Earth. Lunar eclipses happen during a Full Moon when Earth is between the Sun and Moon. Solar ...

Earth, sun, moon: three objects in space whose interactions have a pretty big impact on our lives. Earth orbits the sun once a year, and it rotates on its axis about once a day (depending on your ...