By Becky Ferreira For a few months last fall, a school-bus-size space rock named 2024 PT5 gained fame as Earth’s new “mini-moon.” Astronomers rushed to study the object while it was still ...

One week ago, a private lunar lander left the ground on a nearly 7-week journey to reach the surface of the moon. The launch may not have had the headline-grabbing power of last year's historic ...

What is the moon phase today? Today, Jan. 25, 2025, the moon is 26 days old, in the Waning Crescent phase of its lunar cycle. It is 15% illuminated. Moon phases reveal the passage of time in the ...

(THE CONVERSATION) The U.S.’s return to the Moon with NASA’s Artemis program will not be a mere stroll in the park. Instead it will be a perilous journey to a lunar location representing one ...

Google is celebrating January’s final half moon with a Doodle it released on Jan. 23. The Doodle, called “The Rise of the Half Moon,” is part of an interactive game series. In this game, you connect ...

Here are the dates for the full moons in 2025. The next full moon will be on Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025. It will officially reach its full moon phase at 8:53 a.m. EDT (1353 GMT) but local moonrise ...

The phenomenon of a Full Moon arises when our planet, Earth, is precisely sandwiched between the Sun and the Moon. This alignment ensures the entire side of the Moon that faces us gleams under ...

Before them stood a silvery metal contraption swathed in colourful wires – a box that they hope will one day make oxygen on the moon. Once the team vacated the sphere, the experiment began.

Any astronauts reaching the surface of the moon will be greeted first by a plume of dirt, sent flying by the boosters of their spacecraft. They will emerge and put bootprints in the dirt ...

Google has marked the last Half-Moon of January, also known as the Wolf Moon, with an interactive game. The game challenges users to connect the various phases of the lunar cycle while learning ...

Large blooms of moon jellyfish are being seen from the River Derwent to halfway up Tasmania's east coast. A leading marine scientist has said "an incredible sequence of events" has led to the ...