An image of a full moon. - Photo by Omer Tarsuslu/Anadolu via Getty Images We're approaching the end of this lunar cycle, and the moon is nearly completely out of view. We're on day 27 of the lunar ...

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Heads up stargazers! The moon will shine close to the bright star Antares at sunset on Sept. 27, while some lucky viewers — and plenty of penguins — will witness the lunar disk pass directly in front ...

NASA on Tuesday said it was on track to send astronauts to orbit the moon in early 2026, as the United States races China to return to the lunar surface. Multiple setbacks have delayed the manned ...

An American spacecraft has landed on the Moon for the first time in decades, and surprisingly, it wasn't from NASA. On March 2, 2025, Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost Mission 1 successfully landed in ...

Wondering why there's hardly any moon visible in the sky tonight? That's because of where we are in the lunar cycle, a series of eight unique phases of the moon's visibility. The whole cycle takes ...

The moon is officially getting brighter, and it will be every night until the next full moon. It may be very faint tonight, but it is there, because we're on day one of the lunar cycle. The lunar ...

The moon and sun put on a magnificent show on Sept. 21 when a dramatic partial solar eclipse darkened the sky over a swathe of the Pacific ocean, transforming the disk of our parent star into a ...

October's full moon in 2025 is known as the Harvest Moon and will also be the year's first supermoon. The Harvest Moon will reach its peak illumination on the night of Monday, October 6, 2025. The ...

It's been more than 50 years since astronauts last went to the moon, and yet few NASA missions stir the kind of excitement that the Apollo program once did. But now, NASA has new moon plans. The ...

NASA is pressing ahead with preparations for the first launch of humans beyond low-Earth orbit in more than five decades, and officials said Tuesday that the Artemis II mission could take flight early ...