It's official – space is ... 4 here on Earth and we use it every day to fill party balloons and cool the magnets found in MRI scanners. But helium-3 is scarce. Not on the Moon though.

As for the Moon, that’s apparently another matter. When it was first spotted, asteroid 2024 YR4 was 515,116 miles (829,000 kilometers) away from Earth. Since then, the space rock has moved away ...

Federal law explicitly instructs the NASA administrator to “establish a program to develop a sustained human presence in cis-lunar space or on the Moon, including a robust precursor program ...

A "blood moon" happens when Earth's moon is in a total lunar eclipse ... used this to his advantage in 1504. According to a Space.com Skywatching columnist Joe Rao, Columbus and his crew were ...

causing the full moon to travel through Earth’s shadow in space. During totality, the only sunlight reaching the lunar surface has been refracted through Earth’s atmosphere, which filters out ...

This alignment of bodies in space is called syzygy. When the moon is within the darkest part of Earth’s shadow, called the umbra, it takes on a dramatic reddish hue, which has led to the nicknam ...

Tense, public squabbles between SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and NASA have stirred the space industry, but behind the scenes, space science has continued business as (almost) normal.

Kiichiro Sato/Associated Press Supported by By Aimee Ortiz From Thursday night into Friday morning, the Earth’s shadow gradually overtook the moon’s ... world with our space and astronomy ...