As of Friday, Sept. 19, the moon phase is Waning Crescent, and it is 5% lit up to us on Earth, according to NASA's Daily Moon ...

The next full moon will be the largest and brightest full moon of the year - the October 2025 harvest supermoon. Here's what ...

The Moon, our constant celestial companion, is drifting away from Earth at a slow but measurable rate. According to a ...

Every year, the moon, Earth's reliable celestial companion for 4.5 billion years, is getting 1.5 inches away. The distance to ...

As of Friday, Aug. 29, the moon phase is Waxing Crescent, and 34% will be lit up to us on Earth, according to NASA's Daily Moon Observation.

The moon looks bigger in the night sky because it is in perigee, or the point where the moon reaches its closest point to Earth along its orbit, according to NASA. Though full moons that reach perigee ...

Due to the influence the Earth plays on the moon’s momentum, the Earth’s rotation slows down in response, as explained by DiKerby. However, given that this is such a minor change in distance annually, ...

May has arrived, and with it comes some beautiful evening weather to help us enjoy our night sky. This week, the full moon occurs on Wednesday, May 10, and, as the full moon always does, it will rise ...

Astronomers have found yet another quasi-moon companion of Earth in its orbit around the Sun believed to be a chunk of our ...

In March 1968, the Soviet Union had a partial success with Zond 4. With this launch, they were able to take the spacecraft ...

On Aug. 23, 1966, NASA's Lunar Orbiter 1 sent back the first photo of Earth from the moon. It showed a grainy crescent Earth ...

A recently observed object called 2025 PN7 was found orbiting near the Earth. The quasi-moon is expected to accompany our ...