Imagine looking up at the moon and seeing space dust floating around it. Maybe broken-off parts of the moon are raining down ...

Hakuto-r captures a rare “terrestrial sunrise” during a total eclipse just before crashing into the Moon, revealing the ...

The gleaming moon hanging in our sky has been the subject of countless songs, poems, myths, and legends. But in reality, what would happen if the Earth suddenly lost the moon? Quite a few things, ...

From its first detection using an instrument designed in part by teams based in the Bay, to follow-up orbit analysis ...

If an asteroid is on a collision course with the moon, what should humanity do? Try to nudge the space rock out of the way before it strikes? Obliterate it with a nuclear explosion? Such a cosmic ...

“Impact flashes on the moon are very common,” University of Colorado Boulder astrophysical and planetary sciences professor Paul Hayne said. “In fact, they happen more or less every night, and it’s a ...

If you’re a space enthusiast, you may have seen headlines about “spooky flashes” hitting the moon at the end of October. And the remarkable footage is a reminder that, even though the moon may appear ...