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 ...
A private lunar lander from Japan is now circling the moon, with just another month to go before it attempts a touchdown. Tokyo-based ispace said Wednesday morning its Resilience lander entered lunar ...
WASHINGTON — Communications between a spacecraft heading to the moon and NASA were reestablished after the space agency lost contact with it earlier this week. The satellite, which launched from New ...
Russia’s Luna 25 uncrewed lunar lander was launched in 2023 amid heightened international competition, attempting to achieve ...
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 ...
Earth has a number of mini-moons and quasi-moons. Mini-moons are objects that orbit our planet. But they make for fickle fans: They tend to swing around Earth for only a matter of months. One example ...
Blue Origin is committed to making a permanent human presence in space a reality. To this end, they have developed the New ...
In March 1968, the Soviet Union had a partial success with Zond 4. With this launch, they were able to take the spacecraft ...