Chinese researchers analyzed the first-ever soil samples returned from the far side of the moon, but further samples will be ...

A camera aboard India’s Aditya-L1 spacecraft captured the Earth and moon. The spacecraft launched atop a PSLV rocket. Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: ISRO | edited by Space.com's Steve Spaleta ...

The moon lander captured the first ever HD imagery of a sunset as seen from the moon ... above the Moon’s surface as the sun goes down. Earth and Venus (further in the distance) are also ...

Other times the Earth could see extreme heat and cold (and darkness), with ecosystems and weather patterns changing drastically over centuries. A sudden loss of the Moon is very unlikely.

The smallest full moon of the year, the micromoon, will make an appearance to Earth Saturday night. A micromoon is a full moon --this time -- that occurs when the moon coincides with apogee ...

This is a still from an animation showing asteroid 2024 YR4 as it passes by Earth and heads toward its potential impact with the Moon. This 3D shape of the asteroid was determined from data ...

including starting the moon's deepest robotic planetary subsurface thermal probe and using an X-ray imager to study the interaction of solar wind and the Earth's magnetic field. "Operating on the ...

You won't be able to see it, though, according to EarthSky. While the moon will be at its closest point to Earth, its orbit places it between the sun and Earth. The April 27 new supermoon will be ...

From its lunar home in Mare Crisium, the lander witnessed a total solar eclipse, where Earth perfectly covered the Sun. It was a sight no human has seen from the Moon in over 50 years. A View ...

told New Scientist that a Moon hit would be "a great experiment and a perfect opportunity". And on Earth, "telescopes would certainly see it, I would say, and binoculars might see it," he added.