Here are the best lunar events to see in 2025, including the Major Lunar Standstill, eclipses, occultations and conjunctions ...

A black moon also refers to the new moon phase itself when the moon is positioned between Earth and the sun, making it nearly ...

Earth briefly hosted a 33-foot object, 2024 PT5, as a mini-moon. Scientists suggest it might be lunar debris from an ancient ...

Skywatchers will be treated to a dozen full moons in 2025, as well as a total lunar eclipse and three supermoons.

What is the moon phase today? Today, Dec. 26, 2024, the moon is 25 days old, in the Waning Crescent phase of its lunar cycle. It is 16% illuminated. Moon phases reveal the passage of time in the ...

Firefly Aerospace and NASA are targeting mid-January for the first Blue Ghost mission to the far side of the Moon.

The Japanese company ispace announced on Tuesday night (Dec. 17) that its second-ever moon mission will launch on the same ...

The year will end with a somewhat rare black moon having in the night sky over Wyoming. While that may sound like an ominous ...

In an "idea paper" published on December 18 in Nature, UC Santa Cruz Professor Francis Nimmo and his co-authors propose a ...

The Geminid meteor shower peaked overnight on Dec. 13 and 14, lighting up the skies as impressive meteors struck Earth's ...

Firefly Aerospace The Moon is the place to be right now. Commercial spacecraft are gearing up to land on the lunar surface, unboxing an array of tools and instruments to explore different regions ...

Thanks to the Moon’s orbit around Earth, the angle of sunlight hitting the lunar surface and being reflected back to our planet changes. That creates different lunar phases. The last Full Moon ...