The final full moon of 2024 will rise as far north as it ever does — a phenomenon that happens every 18.6 years called a "major lunar standstill." December's full moon, also known as the cold ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - A celestial event not seen since 2006 is set to captivate skywatchers as the major lunar standstill begins, marking the extremes of the moon's orbit around Earth. This rare ...

What is the moon phase today? Today, Dec. 17, 2024, the moon is 15 days old, in the Waning Gibbous phase of its lunar cycle. It is 94% illuminated. Moon phases reveal the passage of time in the ...

This month's full moon will also feature a lunar rarity: According to TimeandDate.com, the full moon on Dec. 15, 2024, will rise and set at its most extreme northerly points on the horizon — the ...

Lunar Outpost has revised the design of the Lunar Dawn rover it is developing for NASA after Lockheed Martin left the team working on it. Credit: Lunar Outpost BREMEN, Germany — Lunar Outpost ha ...

The Google Rise of the Half-moon Doodle highlights the different phases of the lunar cycle, as a half moon, in the form of the third quarter moon. The card game challenges players to match ...

SpaceX Starship: SpaceX will deploy its Starship cargo lander to deliver a pressurised rover, developed by Japan’s JAXA, to the lunar surface ... The program’s key components include: ...

As SpaceX’s Starship test program continues to gain momentum, the company signed its second commercial deal to deliver a payload to the moon using a lunar lander variant of the massive vehicle.

Credit: Firefly Aerospace WASHINGTON — Firefly Aerospace says it is planning a launch of its first lunar lander mission in January, meaning that none of the three commercial lander missions once ...

NASA has picked SpaceX and Blue Origin to deliver a lunar rover and habitat to the moon within the next decade. The space agency last week announced it will assign two lunar cargo demonstration ...