When Earth is opposite Mars from the sun, it will appear full because you’re looking directly on the daylit side. But ...
It wasn’t a glossy colour postcard or a carefully planned shot. Instead, it was a grainy black-and-white image, sent across space in 1966, that completely transformed how humanity saw itself. On ...
Humanity's first look at Earth from the moon didn't come until Aug. 23, 1966, when this grainy, black-and-white image showed our planet as a crescent above the lunar horizon, appearing to rise as the ...
The Psyche spacecraft is on a six-year journey to reach a metal-rich asteroid by the same name. Well into its voyage, the probe looked back at its home planet and captured a rare view of Earth, ...
The first of three consecutive supermoons of 2025 will appear in our skies on Tuesday night. The full Harvest Moon rises in ...
Editor's note: The September 2025 total lunar eclipse put on a spectacular show, dazzling stargazers with a mesmerizing display of orbital mechanics that briefly turned the moon blood red as Earth's ...