What Is the Moon Phase on April 1st? Today, the moon is 14% full, which puts it in the waxing crescent phase. It is 3 days ...

What Is the Moon Phase on March 30th? Today, the moon is 7% full, which puts it in the waxing crescent phase. It is 2 days ...

What can a sample return mission from Jupiter's volcanic moon, Io, teach scientists about planetary and satellite (moon) formation and evolution? This is what a recent study presented at the 56th ...

NOIRLab shared stunning views of the total lunar eclipse in the night sky over Chile, complete with a blood red moon and ...

The moon is so prominent in our night sky that it is easy for even small children to identify and it creates a good starting ...

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Venus has phases just like the moon. Before and after the conjunction, Venus looks like a thin crescent — though only ...

It might sound like an elaborate publicity stunt for Elon Musk's SpaceX. But stargazers in the UK and the US will be able to see a giant X on the moon this week. A rare event known as the Lunar X ...

China’s Chang’e 6 mission uncovers evidence of a molten lunar magma ocean and a violent ancient impact.

What's on and in a star? What happens in an active galactic nucleus? Answering those questions is the goal of a proposed ...

A lunar eclipse occurs when the Earth moves directly between the sun and the moon, casting a shadow that gradually darkens the lunar surface. The most striking phase—when the moon takes on a dee ...