On its way to the moon, Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lunar lander has taken its first space pictures as it orbits Earth.

Venus is particularly bright in the night sky this month, outshining even Sirius, the brightest star. For observers at ...

After the sun and the moon, the planet Venus is the ... (Photo by Mert Alper Dervis/Anadolu via Getty Images) The moon, just 13%-lit, is beginning its latest orbit around the Earth.

(Photo by Lorenzo Di Cola/NurPhoto via Getty Images) The Moon is now lined-up to intersect the ecliptic—the apparent path of the Sun through our daytime sky and the plane of Earth’s orbit of ...

27 at 7:45 p.m. EDT (00:45 on Feb. 28). A new moon occurs when the moon is directly between Earth and the sun, with its shadowed side pointing towards us. You can see a new moon when it crosses ...

The Blue Ghost lunar lander has captured its first images of the moon from Earth’s orbit as well as a video of Earth eclipsing the sun. See the dazzling views here.

A total lunar eclipse is due in March this year. Darrian Traynor/Getty Images "When Earth is positioned precisely between the moon and sun, Earth's shadow falls upon the surface of the moon ...