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

The first full moon of 2025 is fast approaching, nicknamed the "Wolf Moon" for howling wolves that are active on cold, ...

"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.

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.

The Austin-area space firm’s Blue Ghost mission will gather more information about deep space and lunar environments for ...

By catching the X-rays that are created as solar winds smash into the magnetopause, these satellites and other instruments have seen the outlines of the magnetic field. But they haven’t seen the ...

Pluto likely acquired large moon Charon in a “kiss and capture” collision billions of years ago. It may have created a ...

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 ...

An opportunity to see the moon occult a bright planet at night does not happen too often; for Mars, a specific location on Earth can see ... be near enough to each other so that during Monday ...

When: Friday, Mar. 14, 2025. 2024’s first total lunar eclipse. As seen from North and South America, the full moon will turn reddish for 65 minutes from 2:26 to 3:31 a.m. EDT. Following it will ...