Japan is set to launch a spacecraft on the world's first mission to bring back samples from Phobos, one of the two small, ...

China has pulled off two-way laser communication between Earth and the moon, making it only the second nation after the United States to do so. But the data rates it achieved were well behind those ...

You’ve probably heard the phrase “once in a blue moon.” Maybe you’ve even used it to describe an occasional occurrence in your life — the frequency with which you buy a new cellphone, for example. But ...

The full cold moon — the third and final of fall in the Northern Hemisphere — will turn full on Thursday, Dec. 4, 2025. Named for the chilly temperatures at this time of year in North America, this ...

In this image from the Earth-orbiting GOES-19 satellite on November 19, 2025, the sun is blocked by an occulting disk. But we can see the new moon passing more or less between the Earth and sun, at ...

The moon has held the human mind in its thrall since the dawn of time. Throughout the ages, peoples across the world have worshipped it as an important deity, believing it held real power to influence ...

There are many common beliefs about how the full moon can influence everything from sleep quality to mental health and heart health. However, research on this is limited. In Shakespeare’s “Othello,” ...

Artemis II began its historic flyby of the moon Monday in the mission’s showstopper event — giving the crew the world’s first glimpses ever of parts of the lunar dark side, which they described as ...

One of the great mysteries in astronomy has been why Venus has no moon. Now a new theory provides a simple answer: It might have been eaten. Venus has nearly the same mass, size, and structure as ...