"The commonly quoted average distance of 384,400 kilometers, or 238,855 miles, is a good approximation," said Craig Hardgrove ...

Watch the moon phases and libration for 2024, as seen from Earth's Northern Hemisphere, in this time-lapsed animation that is ...

What is the moon phase today? Today, Oct. 4, 2024, the moon is 2 days old and is in the New Moon phase of its lunar cycle. It is 2% illuminated. Moon phases reveal the passage of time in the night ...

As the Apollo program closed in on its goal, cartographers relied on photos from 1966 and 1967 orbiter missions to create the February 1969 hand-­painted map—considered the best reference at ...

Maggie Aderin-Pocock tells us about the power of the James Webb Space Telescope and how she inspires disadvantaged students ...

New research suggests that water on the moon's surface is more widespread than we thought -- even in places bathed in ...

Observing the night sky can be done with no special equipment, although a sky map can be very useful ... night sky tonight (planets visible now, moon phases, observing highlights this month ...

There are two ways to figure out which phase of the Moon you were born under. The first and easiest way is to enter your birth time, date, and location into a free birth chart calculator that ...

A new analysis of maps of the near and far sides of the moon shows that there are multiple sources of water and hydroxyl in ...

“As the Moon is such a common muse and point of reference, to feel ‘correct’ and to be effective, Phase has to be as realistic as possible—this way we avoid a sort of uncanny valley.

NASA built a moon rover to look for ice on the "relatively nearby but extreme environment" of the moon, but the $450M VIPER ...

Night - Clear. Winds variable at 5 to 8 mph (8 to 12.9 kph). The overnight low will be 58 °F (14.4 °C). Sunny with a high of 86 °F (30 °C). Winds variable at 7 to 13 mph (11.3 to 20.9 kph ...