Stargazers will be treated to a spectacular view on the night of Sept. 7-8, as Earth's inner shadow sweeps across its natural satellite, triggering a "blood moon" total lunar eclipse. Here's how you ...

September's full Harvest Moon will drift into Earth's shadow for a partial eclipse on Sept. 17. It is also the second of four consecutive supermoons this year, making our natural satellite look bigger ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. In 2019, the National Institute of Standards and Technology quietly launched a program with the ambitious goal of capturing moonlight, ...

China launched a satellite toward the moon this week to help support the country's lunar ambitions. Earlier this month, on March 14, China launched two other spacecraft toward the moon in an ...

Earth has quietly picked up a new traveling companion, a tiny captured object that astronomers say will loop around our ...

A team of researchers think they’ve discovered a cave on the Moon in radar images of the lunar surface, which they posit could be a future site for an established human presence on our rocky satellite ...

China's experimental moon satellites Tiandu-1 and 2 are testing lunar communications and navigation tech. Recently, they shared this image of the lunar surface with a ghostly Earth in the background.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A satellite ...

(Reuters) - A dishwasher-sized NASA satellite was launched into space from Florida on Wednesday to identify where water - a precious resource for lunar missions - resides on the moon's surface in ...

It's been a week since NASA lost contact with its new water-hunting moon satellite. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. NASA's new ...