Our Moon follows an elliptical path around the Earth, getting as close as 363,000 km and as far as 405,000 km. This means the Earth would get bigger and smaller in the sky.

And the moon really is significant: It's roughly 1.2% the mass of Earth.That may not be big in an absolute sense, but for the ...

The Moon is 238,900 miles away from Earth, but DSCOVR is a whopping 1 million miles away. The satellite is nearly 800,000 miles away from the Moon when it passes in front of the planet.

See a time-lapsed view of the NASA Artemis 1 Orion spacecraft, Earth and moon that was captured. Credit: NASA | time-lapsed ...

A close-up version of the transit video looks almost surreal. Nagy says this is one of his best ISS transit images ever. Here is my #ISS lunar transit animation with a different approach.Once I've ...

A view of Earth from the moon's south pole according to NASA visual artists. (Image credit: NASA) The virtual camera in the animation is on the rim of Shackleton Crater , partially visible in the ...

Days and nights on the Moon last approximately two Earth-weeks apiece, and the near side of the Moon is the best place to view a "full Earth" phase, during the time when the Sun completely ...

The Moon's real age, and creation from the collision of Earth and Theia, finally confirmed (Updated) A new study has determined with 99.9% accuracy that the Moon was formed 95 million years after ...

A huge rock orbiting near Earth appears to have originated from the moon, the second such object known to exist, with maybe more than a dozen awaiting discovery. The asteroid, called 2024 PT5, is ...

The moon, so bright and large in the sky compared to other celestial objects, has captured the attention of humans at least since the dawn of consciousness. Over these eras, mankind's view of the ...

Once in a blue moon might be more common than we thought. New images show that our moon is way more colorful than just shades of gray. Instead, the orbital rock was observed to show tints of both ...