Austin DeSisto captured this perfectly timed shot of the full Harvest Moon as it passed behind the tip of the Washington ...

A 6-feet long Plexiglas tube containing a "coin" and "feather" is evacuated. The "coin" and "feather" fall at the same rate. When air is introduced into the tube, the "feather" falls at a slower rate.

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The next full moon will be the harvest moon and it will be the first supermoon of 2025, making it the largest and brightest full moon of the year, illuminating the sky for several nights. Here's what ...

September's new moon will be a special event this weekend, as it rises amid a partial solar eclipse — visible to only 0.2% of the world's population — and leads us all into the autumnal equinox. When ...

One of the best naked-eye stargazing sights of the year is on offer to skywatchers this week — if you can rise before the sun Friday (Sept. 19). Just before sunrise, the crescent moon, the brilliant ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — Citing the proposed budget cuts by the Trump administration, NASA announced on Friday that after the Artemis III mission — where Americans will return to the moon — the rocket ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

October's full Moon reaches peak illumination just before 1 a.m. on Oct. 7, but astronomy aficionados with earlier bedtimes don't need to wait up that late to see it happen. Due in part to a kind of ...

The object, the latest “quasi-moon” detected by astronomers, could be with us for almost another 60 years. By Robin George Andrews The Earth stands alone in the solar system as a habitable world, as ...