The moon changes each night, well, from our perspective it does anyway. This is because of the lunar cycle, a recurring ...

Here's what the moon is doing today, June 21, 2025. What is today’s moon phase? As of Saturday, June 21, the moon phase is Waning Crescent. In this phase, the moon is only sligh ...

#2. The Moon came from Earth. It didn’t form beside our planet, and Earth’s gravity didn’t capture it. The latest theory says ...

An asteroid discovered last year and briefly thought to be a threat to Earth has a one-in-23 chance of hitting the Moon, ...

With Diviner now able to date craters larger than 6.2 miles across, Mazrouei set to work. Mapping a billion years’ worth of craters on the moon by hand over the next five years, she quips that ...

Moon phases are part of a 29.5-day lunar cycle, NASA tells us, caused by the angles between the sun, moon, and Earth. Moon phases are how the moon looks from Earth as it goes around us.

Across the Moon's nearly 20-year-long cycle, our lunar companion follows a unique, tilted orbit around Earth. As a result, it has events called major and minor lunar standstills, when the Moon ...

Across the Moon's nearly 20-year-long cycle, our lunar companion follows a unique, tilted orbit around Earth. As a result, it has events called major and minor lunar standstills, when the Moon ...

These icy bodies, which range from 293 to 980 miles (472 to 1,578 kilometers) wide, are all "tidally locked" to Uranus, meaning that the same half of the moon always faces the planet, similar to ...

When the Sun hits the rims of the Blanchinus, La Caille, and Purbach craters at just the right angles during the Moon's cycle ...