Moon phases reveal the passage of time in the night sky. Some nights when we look up at the moon, it is full and bright; sometimes it is just a sliver of silvery light. These changes in appearance are ...

Humanity’s relationship with the moon has always been simple. One planet, one moon — a cosmic partnership as reliable as sunrise. But that clarity just got murkier. Astronomers have confirmed ...

The Moon is slowly moving away from Earth, a fact confirmed by decades of laser measurements and detailed in a recent analysis published in The Conversation. While the drift happens at a snail’s ...

The most distant moon since March 2020 takes to the sky today, but you won't be able to see it. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

2024 PT5, Earth’s newest mini-moon, is expected to go into orbit of Earth for a couple of months from Sept. 29, 2024. Update, Oct. 9, 2024: A link to a map of asteroid 2024 PT5’s orbit around the sun ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The moon and sun share top billing in 2026. Kicking off the year’s cosmic wonders is the moon, drawing ...

A new dataset from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory maps one million cis-lunar orbits, highlighting orbital stability challenges, space domain awareness needs, and planning requirements for Moon ...