On January 25, there will be a special event in Philadelphia to welcome in the “Year of the Snake” when the Penn Museum (33rd ...

Here are the dates for the full moons in 2025. The next full moon will be on Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025. It will officially reach its full moon phase at 8:53 a.m. EDT (1353 GMT) but local moonrise ...

A private U.S. spacecraft has captured stunning images of Earth one week into its flight. Still circling Earth, Firefly ...

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 the phases of the moon. As the moon orbits Earth ...

Scientific and commercial activities on the moon could permanently change the lunar environment. These activities include sending vehicles to the moon, extracting its resources through mining the ...

The images were captured using NASA’s Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC), a 4MP CCD camera and telescope on the DSCOVR ...

By Becky Ferreira For a few months last fall, a school-bus-size space rock named 2024 PT5 gained fame as Earth’s new “mini-moon.” Astronomers rushed to study the object while it was still ...

Players earn points as they match moon phases and are transported into the game with a cosmic twist to the Google logo. The ‘GOOGLE’ logo features ... waxing gibbous, full, waning gibbous ...

The next full Moon is on Wednesday, Feb. 12. That day, the Moon rises at 5:44 p.m. Eastern time, and reaches peak illumination just before 9 p.m. However, you don't have to be watching at the very ...

The phenomenon of a Full Moon arises when our planet, Earth, is precisely sandwiched between the Sun and the Moon. This alignment ensures the entire side of the Moon that faces us gleams under ...

A geologist said it was a rare recording. The organization said that more than 90 important sites on the moon could risk destruction if space tourism is left unregulated. The WNYC science program ...