Blue Ghost beamed home gorgeous, up-close shots of the moon 's far side on Feb. 24, just after lowering its orbit ahead of a Sunday morning (March 2) landing attempt.

Private Blue Ghost moon lander aces historic lunar landing for NASA The car-sized Blue Ghost launched on Jan. 15 atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, carrying 10 science and technology experiments for NASA.

What color is moonlight typically, and what other colors can moonlight look like from our perspective on Earth?

Blue Ghost, which left Earth's orbit behind a few days before entering lunar orbit Feb. 13, completed its third and final engine burn Sunday night to position it as close to the moon as it can get ...

As the Moon reaches New, advanced observers can try photographing 3I/ATLAS while everyone can enjoy nebulae and more in the ...

Following Saturn is Venus, rising in New York at 2:51 a.m. on July 25. Venus is in Taurus, and so bright that it is ...

The night sky tonight and on any clear night offers an ever-changing display of fascinating objects you can see, from stars ...

Here's everything to know about July's buck moon and what it means. A full moon is one of the lunar phases where the entire visible side of the moon, facing Earth, is illuminated by the sun.

June 22: The waning crescent moon in the east-southeast sky before dawn is above the beautiful and bright Venus. Look for earthshine on the moon. Try taking a smartphone/camera picture.

On June 26, Mercury reaches its highest elevation for Northern Hemisphere observers; at 9:15 it is still about 8 degrees high; that day the moon will be a thin crescent on the right side of the ...