Angela Gier’s fifth-grade science class at Maple Lawn Elementary has been building their knowledge about the eclipse. They’re always building something in her Dallas ISD classroom. “I am a ...

Earth’s origins trace back to a turbulent solar system, where particles of dust and gas spiraled around the sun ... moon’s composition and structure. Advanced simulations allow researchers to ...

A new study implies that in the past, moons in our solar system may have had rings just like planets do — deepening the mystery of why no ringed moons exist today.

according to a new numerical model. (Adeene Denton/Southwest Research Institute) The Earth's moon is believed to have formed from a similar process, the researchers explained in a written ...

27 at 7:45 p.m. EDT (00:45 on Feb. 28). A new moon occurs when the moon is directly between Earth and the sun, with its shadowed side pointing towards us. You can see a new moon when it crosses ...

2025—the Earth is precisely between the sun and a full moon. The Earth projects its shadow onto the lunar surface, and the only sunlight that gets to the lunar surface is filtered by Earth’s ...