2025's first full moon will be the last of four consecutive supermoons, according to NASA. But it's a pretty eventful lunar ...

"We were definitely surprised by the 'kiss' part of kiss-and-capture. There hasn't really been a kind of impact before where ...

Other names for January's full moon from Native ... when the moon will be slightly closer and brighter to Earth. The moon's phases in October are: October's full moon is frequently called the ...

"It's half Pluto's size and 12% of its mass, which makes it much more similar to the Earth's moon than any other moon in the solar system." For comparison, our moon is just a quarter of the size ...

at some points in its orbit the sunlit part of the moon can be seen from the Earth, and at other points, we can only see the parts of the moon that are in shadow." A new moon is a shadowed moon ...

Last quarter: The moon has moved another quarter of the way around Earth, to the third quarter position. The sun's light is now shining on the other half of the visible face of the moon.

"We think the Earth-Moon system initiated when a Mars ... "And this collision scenario supports the formation of other moons, such as Pluto's four other tiny, lumpy satellites," she said.