Trust me, it's a circular orbit. Now let's look at the path of the moon. First, notice that in this half-month the moon starts on the far side of the Earth and ends up closer to the sun (that's ...

NASA's PUNCH mission, a tiny constellation of four satellites, captured a photo of the moon drifting across the sky through a haze of sunlight. The mission is still undergoing commissioning and is ...

From Earth, the cosmic lineup of the moon, Earth and sun caused the moon to appear with ... While this week's lunar show was the first visible to the U.S. since November 2022, more than 50 years ...

The stunning spectacle was the result of a total lunar eclipse — when the sun, Earth and the moon align. As the moon moved through the shadow of the Earth, it was also being illuminated by light ...

En route to land on the moon, a spacecraft snapped views of Earth eclipsing the sun. The Blue Ghost lunar lander, built by the Texas-based company Firefly Aerospace for NASA, launched to space on ...

and Russia could take in the sky show too. The performance was the result of the orbit of the Earth carrying it between the sun and the moon in a perfect alignment that temporarily blocked the ...

A lunar lander has completed its two-week mission and sent spectacular sunset images as a "final goodbye" back to Earth ... life just above the Moon's surface as the sun goes down.

Once in a blue moon might be more common than we thought. New images show that our moon is way more ... of the lunar surface before it returned to Earth Tuesday. Tints of red and blue were ...

Breathtaking photos of ... blood red moon and dazzling view of the Milky Way in a post on X (formally Twitter). During a total lunar eclipse, the Earth passes between the sun and the moon, casting ...

NASA has snapped photos and videos ... its closest approach to Earth. Asteroid 2011 UL21 during its June 27 close approach with Earth. The asteroid and its small moon (a bright dot at the bottom ...

The simple answer to your question is the camera settings used to take most photos ... results show pinpoints of light behind the bright, fuzzy blobs that are the overexposed Moon or Earth.