The Moon does not make its own light like a star. The Moon appears bright because it reflects light from the Sun. Like the Earth, half of the Moon faces towards the Sun, and half faces away from it.

There's a bright "star" shining in the east after dark. It's Jupiter, which is now approaching it's biggest, brightest and ...

Monday evening (Nov. 4), the night before Election Day, will bring a lovely celestial display involving the two brightest ...

Could a ‘new star’ appear in the sky this summer? Here’s what to know “Near-Earth ... sun-centered orbit. Unfortunately for ...

The planet—the brightest object in the solar system after the sun and moon ... Earth and always cloudy, so it's highly reflective. The dazzling performance of Venus as the bright “Evening Star ...

When people typically ask for your "star sign", they really mean your Sun ... around Earth, you need to know the location of your birth to discover your lunar chart placement. The Moon moves ...

This month, catch planetary views of Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars, witness a close pass of the Parker Solar Probe by Venus, and ...

The Earth and moon are within view of NASA's Artemis 1 Orion spacecraft. The Earth is over 260,000 miles away (418,000 km) in ...

The European Space Agency's Hera mission captured imagery of Earth and the moon shrinking as the spacecraft was en route to the asteroid Dimorphos.

And star gazing would be spectacular. But by the next morning, you'd begin to realize just how important the moon is for life on Earth. To start, between the sun, Earth's rotation, and the moon ...

When the moon is exactly on the opposite side of Earth from the sun ... be bright and easily spotted as the sun sets; Venus is often one of the first "stars" to become visible.