The U.S. space agency launched a lunar flyby Wednesday, but Beijing is pursuing its own space program with formidable focus. Here’s what we know about it, in photos and videos.

The moon is one of the most familiar sights in the night sky, but it does not look the same from every corner of the planet. Travel far enough from home, and the face of the moon can look like it has been flipped upside down. For anyone who grew up in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An image of a full moon. - Photo by Omer Tarsuslu/Anadolu via Getty Images Can you see anything on the Moon's surface when you look up tonight? There's lots to spot, so keep reading to ...

Energize your November by taking a look up at the sky at the latest supermoon. The upcoming one will be even brighter than the supermoon that lit up the sky in October, and the moon should also look bigger. Known as the full "beaver moon," the one on Nov ...

On some evenings the rising Moon seems to swell into a glowing disk that dwarfs city skylines and mountain ridges, as if it has suddenly crept closer to Earth. The effect is so striking that it fuels social media myths about “giant” full Moons and ...