New maps issued by NASA detail exactly when and where skywatchers across the contiguous U.S. can see the upcoming total lunar eclipse on March 3, 2026.
Low, winding ridges run across the Moon’s dark plains like faint seams in cooled wax. They are easy to miss in a wide photo.
The map unveils small mare ridges, geologically young features that will aid the selection of landing sites for future Moon missions.
We often look at the sky and see a distance, as if we are staring across a void and yet the horizon is merely a mirror of our ...
The New Moon will lie directly in front of the Sun to observers in Antarctica.
Judith Nangala Crispin fuses poetry, prose and striking works of art in this illustrated account of her journeys across ...
Plus NOAA's GOES-19 satellite spies the lunar disk crossing the face of our parent star.
Researchers used a pair of powerful supercomputers to simulate the potential trajectories of 1 million satellites in a ...
Lunar dust remains one of the biggest challenges for a long-term human presence on the moon. Its jagged, clingy nature makes it naturally stick to everything from solar panels to the inside of human ...
Scientists are proposing to build a laser in a crater on the moon to help future lunar missions land safely in the dark and find their way around. This ultra-stable light source could also help us ...