Like our moon, Deimos is tidally locked to Mars, meaning the same side always faces the planet—the only side visible to rovers on the Martian surface. The only way to see Deimos’ far side up close is ...

While last night on Earth we got a lunar eclipse, the Blue Ghost lander on the moon saw the opposite - a solar eclipse.

F or the first time since 2022, skygazers Thursday-into-Friday were treated with a total lunar eclipse, which turned the moon ...

The Blue Ghost lunar lander, operated by Firefly Aerospace from Texas, became the first commercial spacecraft to image an ...

Pictures may enliven us, but other data, such as information about magnetic fields, add a huge amount to our understanding of ...

While forecasts called for cloudy skies on Friday morning during a total lunar eclipse, clear skies provided a spectacular ...

The Red Planet and its tiny moon Deimos were recorded at a very near distance as the asteroid-chasing spacecraft completed a flyby on Wednesday.

The full moon will take on several shades of red, orange and yellow when it’s nearer the outer edges of Earth’s shadow — when ...

The vernal equinox occurs as Mercury stands still in Pisces and several of Jupiter’s moons transit in the sky this week.

The number of known moons in our Solar System has been rising for centuries, but astronomers say it has probably peaked – for ...

On the morning of Friday, March 14 -- the day of the full Worm Moon -- the moon will be 12 degrees above the western horizon as twilight begins at 6:23 a.m. E.T. No planets will be visible at that ...

Heads up, literally! The "blood moon" total lunar eclipse will awe stargazers this week. Here are the best times to watch in ...