This month's full moon is also an unusually small full moon: On Friday, the moon reaches "apogee," the farthest point in its orbit around Earth, hence the "micromoon" nickname, Astronomy magazine ...

You might notice that the full moon on Saturday looks a bit smaller than usual. While the moon is indeed shrinking, it will only look smaller this month because it's slightly farther away.

Their first small 3D printed home ... are working to figure out the fundamental challenge: how to 3D print infrastructure on the moon without having to ship material there from Earth.

Saturn has an extensive ring system that extends out to 282,000km away from the planet, or about three quarters of the distance between the Earth and the Moon. Within this structure there are a ...

An almost-full, half-pie, waxing moon hanging lopsided in the night sky has long been a symbol of things to come. Now scientists have a new symbolism for the lunar phase we call first quarter: a ...