Disney animation veteran Glen Keane makes his directorial debut with Over the Moon, an adventure about a Chinese girl who pursues the folktale of moon goddess Chang’e after her own mother dies.

It’s great to have an animated female lead that does for science what Belle in “Beauty and the Beast” did for reading, but ultimately, “Over the Moon” wanes more than it waxes. Sign Up ...

Animated transit of a Martian moon. By Phil Plait. Oct 16, 2012 9:00 AM. ... Phobos has a maximum size in the sky of about a quarter degree, or half the size of our full Moon.

On “Over the Moon,” Keane’s vision for the world of Lunaria blends inspiration from artists who have come before with original concepts designed to push the bounds of the medium.

New evidence of water plumes found on Jupiter's moon Europa 00:42. NASA's Juno probe has flown closer to Jupiter and its largest moon, Ganymede, than any other spacecraft in more than two decades ...

There’s a lovely, original story happening at the edges of “Over the Moon” — literally, the first 20 minutes and the last five — but you can feel the studio notes taking over this ...