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The moon and sun figure big in the new year's lineup of cosmic wonders

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AP) — The moon and sun share top billing in 2026. Kicking off the year’s cosmic wonders is the moon, drawing the first astronauts to visit in more than 50 years, as well as a ...
Live Science

NASA spacecraft snaps images of lunar transit and Earth eclipse on the same day — see the photos

The Solar Dynamics Observatory saw a lunar transit and an Earth eclipse on July 25 — the first when the moon passed between it and the sun, and another when Earth did the same. When you purchase ...
The New York Times

The Moon Was an Inside Job

New research suggests that Theia, the object whose collision with Earth is theorized to have caused the formation of the moon, came from closer to the sun. Artist’s impression of the collision between ...
Los Angeles Times

The moon and sun figure big in the new year’s lineup of cosmic wonders

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Astronauts return to the moon for the first time in 50 years — though not on its surface — alongside robotic ...