The bad news is that the sun, Earth, and moon will not be perfectly lined up during this eclipse. As a result, the moon will pass through the edge rather than the center of Earth’s shadow.

By flying closer to the Sun than ever, Parker Solar Probe reveals the chaotic birthplace of solar wind and space storms, ...

With 10 times the mass of our planet, and spending only part of its orbit in the habitable zone, Kepler-725c is very different to Earth.

Searching for Earth-like life remains the ultimate goal of planetary science, and identifying Earth-like planets in the habitable zones of sun-like stars is a key step.

The distance from the Moon to the Earth is unsurprisingly the same as from the Earth to the Moon, and the distance of each to the Sun is so similar that these can be ignored.

Why the closest Supermoon of the year will be invisible to Earth On April 27, the Moon will be about 221,900 miles from Earth, the closest distance to our planet all year but we won't be able to see ...

Over 4.6 billion years ago, Earth took shape from a spinning cloud of dust and gas surrounding the young sun. Tiny particles within this cloud collided and clumped together, driven by gravity and ...

NEW YORK – Venus will pass between the Earth and sun on Saturday during what's called an inferior conjunction. But don't plan on seeing the linkup. The sight is extremely difficult to spot ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Venus will pass between the Earth and sun on Saturday during what’s called an inferior conjunction.

Not only will Friday’s total lunar eclipse be a Blood Moon, but it also lands on Pi Day! Grab a blanket—it won’t be freezing, but it will be in the 40s.

En route to land on the moon, a spacecraft snapped views of Earth eclipsing the sun. The Blue Ghost lunar lander, built by the Texas-based company Firefly Aerospace for NASA, launched to space on ...