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 ...

Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website. Join observers from around the world on Saturday, Oct. 4, for NASA’s International Observe the Moon Night. This ...

NASA announced a launch date for first crewed flight to the moon since 1972. The Artemis II mission will circle the moon but not land on the surface. If successful, NASA is set to put humans on the ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Faint hydrogen signals from the cosmic Dark Ages may soon help determine the mass of dark matter particles. Simulations suggest future Moon-based observatories could distinguish between warm and cold ...

It has been a long-time dream of the human race to be able to harvest resources from other places in the solar system, but we're only now getting to a point, technologically speaking, when we can ...

An image of a full moon. - Photo by Omer Tarsuslu/Anadolu via Getty Images The moon is appearing smaller and smaller every night, a nod to the name of the current phase in the lunar cycle, Waning ...

The moon might be more hospitable to life than we thought, increasing the risk of future moon missions contaminating the lifeless lunar surface. Space missions must follow policies on “planetary ...

Look east on the night of Sept. 12 to see the waning gibbous moon close to the magnificent Pleiades open cluster, with the distant planet Uranus lurking nearby in the constellation Taurus. The 62%-lit ...