More than 100 spacecraft have been sent to the Moon since 1959, when a Soviet probe became the "first man-made object to disturb the lunar surface", said The Times's science reporter Kaya Burgess.

See what moon phase it is tonight and find out when you can see the rest of the moon phases for 2024. Today, Nov. 7, 2024, the moon is 6 days old and is in the Waxing Crescent phase of its lunar ...

India is eyeing a 2028 launch for its Chandrayaan-4 moon sample-return mission, followed by an uncrewed lunar lander and rover in collaboration with Japan. The largest and oldest-known impact site ...

Here are the dates for the full moons in 2024. The next full moon will be on Friday, Nov. 15. It will officially reach its full moon phase at 4:29 p.m. EDT (2129 GMT). The moon will still appear ...

The next full moon is due to appear this week in night skies all over the world. When it emerges, the phenomenon will hold a couple of notable titles. First, it's the Hunter's Moon, a centuries ...

The Moon does not produce its own light. We can see the Moon because it reflects light from the Sun. The Moon orbits the Earth, and as this happens the Moon’s appearance when viewed from the ...

We’d made a seven-o’clock date for dinner ... the part of the Okinawan interpreter in “The Teahouse of the August Moon,” which, like “Sayonara,” his tenth picture, was partly shot ...

There used to be a number of theories about how the Moon was made and it was one of the aims of the Apollo program to figure out how we got to have our Moon,' says Sara. Prior to the Apollo mission ...

October’s hunter’s moon is set to peak at its fullest around ... Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS), which just made its closest pass of Earth on Saturday, is visible in the west just after ...

A spectacular astronomical event took over the skies on Thursday night—the third in a series of four supermoons this year, the Hunter's Moon, which also happened to be the biggest and brightest.

The Hunter's Moon will be the first full moon of autumn when it rises on Oct. 17. It will also be the third and closest supermoon of the year. When you purchase through links on our site ...

It sounds like something out of a science-fiction movie. For the past couple of weeks, Earth's orbit has been home to a "mini-moon" the size of a city bus. The celestial object is more than just a ...