(NEXSTAR) – A treat awaits sky gazers in the month of March – the moon will take on a deep, reddish hue as it slips into the Earth’s shadow during a total lunar eclipse. The celestial ...

In the summer of 2024, a robotic mission landed for the first time on the far side of the Moon. The Chinese Chang’e-6 lander planted a flag, dug up more than four pounds of rock and soil ...

It's a larger, fully reusable version of the rocket that flew humans to the moon, he added, "and it's just really audacious." Why Starship is critical for building on the moon Though the moon isn ...

The “blood moon” will be visible in every state between Thursday night and Friday morning and will glow with a reddish hue. The eclipse will happen Thursday night through Friday morning ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A privately owned lunar lander touched down on the moon with a drill, drone and rovers for NASA and other customers Thursday, but quickly ran into trouble and may have ...

Here are the dates for the full moons in 2025. The next full moon will be on Saturday, April 12. It will officially reach its full moon phase at 8:22 p.m. EDT (0022 GMT April 13), but local ...

There's a lot less sky and a lot more moon in view for Firefly Aerospace's "Ghost Riders in the Sky" mission. Firefly's lunar lander, named Blue Ghost, entered orbit around the moon last week ...

We tend to think of the moon as a cold, dusty rock, but in fact, its surface can get pretty hot during a lunar day. How hot? It turns out that the answer can vary dramatically over a very short ...

Their origins date back to the Tang Dynasty (618–907 AD), when they were first made as offerings to the moon during harvest celebrations. By the Yuan Dynasty (1271–1368 AD), mooncakes took on ...

The crescent moon has a famously lofty place in Arab and Islamic culture. A symbol of transformation, it signals the beginning and end of every month of the Hijri calendar. Even now, astronomers and ...

The moon is turning red in the night sky this morning in an event known as a blood moon. The phenomenon only happens a handful of times a year, and this is your next chance to spot one in the UK.