July's full "Buck Moon" will be at its fullest on Thursday, July 10, and will be best seen at moonrise. It is the farthest ...

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Here's how to watch the July full moon, along with appearances from planets and constellations in the night sky.

Because Earth moves in an elliptical orbit around the sun, being further away means it travels slower along its orbit. This ...

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A COLOSSAL asteroid on a collision course with the Moon could damage thousands of satellites and send shrapnel blasting ...

American space agency NASA is getting ready to launch the Arcstone instrument that may aid in creating a calibration standard ...

NASA will soon launch a one-of-a-kind instrument, called Arcstone, to improve the quality of data from Earth-viewing sensors ...

At aphelion, Earth’s distance from the sun is about 94.5 million miles. Six months later, at the start of January in the winter, Earth is at its closest point to the sun at 91.5 million miles ...