The Moon does not make its own light like a star. The Moon appears bright because it reflects light from the Sun. Like the Earth, half of the Moon faces towards the Sun, and half faces away from it.

The Earth formed over 4.6 billion years ago out of a mixture of dust and gas around the young sun. It grew larger thanks to countless collisions between dust particles, asteroids, and other growing ...

A new video from the mission shows the Earth setting and rising behind the moon just after the spacecraft made its second lunar orbit maneuver. Earth rise, Earth set, repeat! The video shows the ...

EPIC is only positioned to capture this incredible image twice a year, as the orbit of DSCOVR crosses the orbital plane of the moon. Sitting between the Earth and the Sun, DSCOVR’s primary ...

we expect to capture a solar eclipse on March 14 where the Earth will block the sun from the Moon’s surface and cast Blue Ghost into a shadow for about five hours,” Marlin said, explaining ...

A full moon can be a spectacular sight as it lights up the night sky. Stargazers can see a different full moon every month of the year and this month's Wolf Moon was particularly special as ...

Lunar eclipses are the elaborate, delicate dance between the Earth, Sun and Moon. The Earth has two shadows. The darkest, central shadow is called the umbra, while scientists know the outer shadow ...