"If the moon and a planet are near Castor and Pollux you have an impressive show." From our earthly perspective, the moon and Mars will appear closest to each other at around 8 p.

The striking X mark on the moon, which requires a certain amount of luck to be spotted, will be visible for around four hours ...

See what moon phase it is tonight and find out when you can see the rest of the moon phases for 2025. Today, March 20, 2025, the moon is 20 days old and is in the Waning Gibbous phase of its lunar ...

Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 successfully completed its two-week mission on the Moon, becoming the first fully ...

A space probe named Hera captured images of Mars' small Deimos moon while on a mission to examine an asteroid.

Array would leverage robotic and crewed lunar missions and China-led International Lunar Research Station set to take shape ...

And Aristotle was the first to realize that the when the moon goes into eclipse, the curved shape of the shadow implies that the Earth has to be spherical, but no one believed him.” What other ...

Scientists found that some slopes on the Moon stay cold enough to hold ice. This could expand water sources for future space ...

A total lunar eclipse is a relatively rare astronomical event because the moon usually passes above or below Earth’s shadow in the sky due to the tilt of its orbit. But once or twice a year the ...