“In 1969, we landed humans on the moon. On Christmas Eve, we embrace a star — our star.” Artist’s concept of the Parker Solar Probe spacecraft approaching the sun. Launched in ...

December 2024 will see a rare "black moon," a term for the second new moon in a calendar month. The second new moon of December will occur tonight, at 5:27 p.m. ET (2227 GMT) on Dec. 30, according ...

A new moon occurs when the sun and moon align in the same zodiac sign, with the moon right between the Earth and the sun. The moon appears darkened in the night sky, barely visible beneath the ...

The phenomenon of a Full Moon arises when our planet, Earth, is precisely sandwiched between the Sun and the Moon. This alignment ensures the entire side of the Moon that faces us gleams under ...

The full moon is the point where the entire face of the moon is illuminated by the sun as seen from Earth. "This is as close as we come to seeing the sun's illumination of the entire day side of ...

“For those of us in the northern hemisphere, the Moon will seem to reach higher in the sky than you might expect,” Russell said in an email. The sun, moon and Earth are on about the same ...

An artist's conception of NASA's Parker Solar Probe passing through the sun's outer atmosphere ... as NASA prepares to return astronauts to the moon, and eventually, beyond.

When: Friday, Mar. 14, 2025. 2024’s first total lunar eclipse. As seen from North and South America, the full moon will turn reddish for 65 minutes from 2:26 to 3:31 a.m. EDT. Following it will ...

NASA's record-breaking Parker Solar Probe will smash its own personal bests for proximity to the sun and fastest speed by a human-made object when it whizzes past our star on Christmas Eve (Dec. 24).

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A NASA spacecraft made history and is safe after making the closest-ever approach to the sun. On Tuesday, the Parker Solar Probe hurtled through the sizzling solar atmosphere and passed within a ...

Environment Canada is forecasting a mix of sun and cloud this morning in Toronto. The daytime high is expected to reach -7 C and there’s an expected morning wind chill of -22 C. Tonight ...