The moon will be half illuminated by the sun on Tuesday, Aug. 8, during its last quarter phase, exactly midway between the completely lit full moon and the fully dark new moon.

Ouranos is an AI-powered astronomy weather app that helps moon watchers find the best nights to observe the sky.

A new high-resolution geological map of the Moon was recently released online. Ji et al. 2022/Science Bulletin. A research team led by the Chinese Academy of Sciences has released a new high ...

A topographic map of the moon, centered on the Apollo 15 landing site. The false colors indicate elevation: red areas are highest and blue lowest.

Explore 50 years of lunar visits with our newest moon map. In 1969, National Geographic released an acclaimed map of the moon. Now, see the latest version featuring decades' worth of fresh data.

During the new moon phase, the moon is positioned between the Earth and the Sun, meaning the side facing us isn’t lit. So, even though it’s closer than usual, it remains hidden in the dark sky.

China has released the most detailed map yet of the moon using images from its Chang'e 2 lunar orbiter. The new moon map was two years in the making and is the highest-resolution view yet seen ...

NASA's interactive map for observing the Moon each day of the year shows the strawberry moon will actually be a few thousand miles closer to Earth during the full moon phase.

NASA has used data from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter to map out in amazing detail the geocentric phase, libration, position angle of the Moon's axis, and apparent diameter of the Moon ...