Occasionally, the moon's orbit does bring it directly between the Earth and the sun during a new moon ... telescopes and the best telescopes for kids. If you're looking for imaging gear, our ...

Earth, is precisely sandwiched between the Sun and the Moon. This alignment ensures the entire side of the Moon that faces us gleams under sunlight. Thanks to the Moon’s orbit around Earth ...

So much junk is filling Earth's orbit that collision avoidance has become a busy business. "We're talking about the dead satellites, the rocket bodies, the fairings, the wrenches, the gloves ...

“Our data suggest that the moon inherited water tracing back to Earth’s formation, followed by later contributions from comets ... One theory suggests that comets, the cosmic snowballs that orbit the ...

From SpaceX plucking its huge Super Heavy rocket out of the sky to the launch of NASA's $5 billion Europa Clipper mission, ...

Now in its closest orbit yet, Parker will pass just 3.8 million miles above the sun's surface. It will be within the corona, the super-heated outer atmosphere that's visible from Earth as bright ...

24, bringing it within 4% of the Earth-Sun distance, well inside Mercury’s orbit. It was humanity’s closest encounter with a star, a feat inextricably linked to two spectacular things that ...

The Parker Solar Probe has been gradually circling closer toward the sun since 2018, using flybys of Venus to gravitationally ...

In 1968 David La Conte was given a momentous task – to photograph humanity's first voyage into the space beyond the environs of the Earth, out toward the Moon. In lunar orbit on Christmas Eve, the ...

The star at the centre of our Solar System could have had a sibling long ago – the question is, where did it go? (Credit: Serenity Strull/ Getty Images) Many stars in our galaxy exist in pairs ...

Highlights include January’s Wolf Moon, April’s Pink Moon, and June’s Strawberry Moon. These moons inspire creativity, abundance, and grounding, concluding with December's Cold Moon ...