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Sean Rooney's Moon Phase Tracker displays the current phase of the moon as beautiful, animated ASCII art. Note that it's ...
During their visit to the moon in 1969, Aldrin used a lunar surface camera to capture a close-up of his fellow astronaut’s shoe and the print it made in the lunar soil (see main image).
NASA has released the first high-definition photos of a sunset on the moon, taken by the privately owned Blue Ghost lander shortly before it went dark over the weekend. Firefly's Blue Ghost landed ...
This image shows the Moon’s surface, Earth on the horizon, and Blue Ghost’s top deck with its solar panel, X-band antenna (left), and LEXI payload (right) in the view.
Although the moon was full, it might have appeared 14% smaller and 30% dimmer, a phenomenon known as a micromoon. According to NASA, this occurs when the celestial body is at its farthest point ...
Last night's "Strawberry Moon" hovered lower in the night sky than it had done since 2006. Here are some stunning global ...
The Odysseus spacecraft has dispatched new images it captured of the lunar surface during the lander’s harrowing approach to the moon. The vehicle softly touched down on the moon on Thursday ...