The only supermoon of 2017 created quite a sight in the night sky around the world this weekend. A supermoon is a full moon or a new moon that approximately coincides with the closest distance that ...

The Google Lunar XPrize finale has been almost a decade in the making, but 2017 will be the year that we finally have lift off. The XPrize foundation has today confirmed the five finalist teams that ...

On 10 February 2017, sky watchers will experience a confluence of three celestial events in the same night: a penumbral lunar eclipse, a "snow moon," and a comet. The lunar eclipse will be somewhat ...

Saturday Jan. 28, 2017 (01/28/2017) is the Lunar New Year -- the beginning of the lunar calendar. The festival is also known by other names including the Spring Festival, Chinese New Year, Seollal and ...

The private space race is well and truly on, and SpaceIL, an Israeli team competing for the Google Lunar XPrize, just bought a ticket to the moon in early 2017. Tim Stevens Former editor at large for ...