This is called Earthlight, which is sunlight reflected from the Full Earth onto the almost New Moon. It's also the clever bit of the Mission to EarthPhase watch.

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Those that do survive could take many years, even centuries, before they approach the Earth again. Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, if it survives, won’t return to the Earth for another 800 centuries.

For the past couple of weeks, Earth's orbit has been home to a "mini ... booster from the 1966 Surveyor 2 Centaur launch. But ATLAS reports this new mini-moon is likely to be a real asteroid ...

The comet—traveling about 44 million miles away—was observed from Earth for the first time earlier ... [+] this month. Comet C/2023 A3, also known as the Tsuchinshan-ATLAS comet, was first ...

Earth is about to have a close encounter with ... our planet will intersect the path of the ion tail of comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS). “It’s a particularly unusual situation,” says ...

Is this *** meteorite? Dan Charlton of the English City of Wakefield thinks it could be. Charlton says he found the unusual rock after spotting something like *** shooting star. Earlier this month ...

The "once-in-a-lifetime" comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS looks like it has grown a physics-defying second tail after reaching its closest point to Earth for more than 80,000 years, new photos reveal.

You have just a few weeks left to view the "comet of the century" making its 80,000-year orbit around Earth. Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan–ATLAS will be visible with the naked eye from Earth until ...

Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS will be visible just over the western horizon shortly after sunset. Astronomers say the comet was last visible from Earth about 80,000 years ago when Neanderthals roamed ...