In a series of images taken by NASA's Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) on July 16, the so-called dark side of the moon is fully illuminated as the moon crosses between the camera and Earth.

The rest of the moon, which we see as dark, is still in night, with the sun yet to rise to start the long lunar day. That, in turn, means the part of the lunar surface that isn’t lit should be ...

For terrestrial images of the moon, it does not matter if you are taking images from a dark sky or a light-polluted area. But naturally, dark-sky places lend themselves to a more natural scene.

The images captured by the visible light camera aboard the Juno spacecraft, the JunoCam, reveal show the fractures, ridges, and bands that crisscross the moon’s surface in great detail.

Data from India’s recent Chandrayaan-3 mission supports the idea that an ocean of molten rock once covered the moon. Scientists from the mission have published their new findings in the journal ...

First it used the moon’s gravity, and then on Tuesday night it will use the Earth’s, as a natural brake – slowing itself down and then sling-shotting on to the next phase of its journey.

As we look up at the night sky, the moon's glow might just seem a little brighter, warmed by the stories we now share with it. Facts about the dark side of the moon The dark side of the moon is ...

EARLIER in the week, a liquid-hydrogen fuel tank had sprung a leak and threatened to delay the launch. Now, less than an hour before the late-morning blastoff, dark clouds rolled ominously across ...

NASA unexpectedly lost communication with Orion early Wednesday morning, but it was resolved 47 minutes later. Prior to going dark, the capsule beamed back close-up shots of the moon.

A lunar day and night both last for around two weeks. As the Moon rotates and orbits around the Earth at the same speed, it means that humans looking up at the night sky will always see the same side ...