Today, July 6, 2025, the moon is 11 days old and is in the Waxing Gibbous phase of its lunar cycle. It is 83% illuminated.

The Lunar Module (LM) was a key part of NASA’s Apollo program, responsible for carrying astronauts from lunar orbit to the ...

This year's buck moon will reach its peak illumination at 4:37 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time on Thursday, July 10, 2025. While ...

The "Golden Handle" appears each month when the sun illuminates a mountain range lining a vast impact crater. Saturday night ...

One of those investigations involved a distinctive deep dive into studying the interior of the moon.

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

What is a partial lunar eclipse? Lunar eclipses always occur at the full moon phase when Earth is positioned between the moon and the sun. When those three bodies align, Earth’s shadow falls ...

A rendering shows Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lunar lander, which aims to deliver 10 science payloads to a basin called Mare Crisium, on the far eastern edge of the moon’s near side.

Several spacecraft, including NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter that constantly circles and takes images of the lunar surface, have helped to shed light on the moon. Yutu-2, a lunar rover that ...

The countdown for the year's first total lunar eclipse begins.. The celestial event, which will see the moon change to rusty red hues, will occur in the U.S. on the night of March 13-14.

A lunar eclipse is an alignment of the Earth, moon and sun where the moon passes through the Earth's shadow, or umbra. As it does, the moon will appear to darken and take on a crimson shade of red.