A seasonal black moon, to appear on August 22 or 23, is the third of four new moons within an astronomical season ...

Tianwen 2, part of China’s growing space ambitions, aims to study Kamo’oalewa, one of Earth’s seven “quasi-moons.” These objects are in near-Earth orbits but are not considered true moons.

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This full-color photo of the moon was taken by the narrow field of view navigation sensor of China's Tianwen 2 asteroid probe on May 30, 2025, when the spacecraft was about 367,000 miles (590,000 ...

The James Webb Space Telescope's ability to see in near- and mid-infrared light allowed it to capture this view of Herbig-Haro 49/50. A spiral galaxy appears at its edge in the upper left.

Photos of the sun's corona can help scientists study the solar wind — the more than 300,000 tons (272,000 metric tons) of material the sun blasts into space every second at a million mph (1.6 ...

A Blue Moon can be defined as a monthly one (the second full Moon in a calendar month) or a seasonal one (the third full Moon in a season). Similarly, you can have a monthly Black Moon, happening ...

That's because Mars takes 687 Earth days to orbit the sun, and Earth takes 365 days, so Earth passes between Mars and the sun every 789 days. For more sublime space images, check out our Space ...

On July 5, the moon 's terminator, the line that separates lunar night from day, falls slightly to the west of the great circular plain Sinus Iridum (Latin for the 'Bay of Rainbows') in the ...