A rare blue moon will light up the sky in May as part of a month that will feature two full moons. The inspiration for everything from the classic song “Blue Moon” to the nickname of an All-Star ...
The Flower Moon will light up the night sky on the first day of May, which marks the midpoint between summer and spring. May's full moon, known as the Flower Moon, will peak on Friday, May 1. The ...
NASA has published a "Moon Base User's Guide" detailing the many challenges the agency will need to overcome for it to complete 73 planned moon landings and build a permanent lunar base. The document, ...
You can probably conjure this vision of the moon—hold the image in your mind and transmit it off this planet and onto our shining opalescent companion. Peaks in the sun? I’ve seen that. This week, we ...
The data pipeline from NASA’s Artemis II mission opened to full blast a few hours after looping behind the far side of the Moon on Monday night, when the Orion spacecraft established a laser ...
NASA’s Artemis II mission, carrying four astronauts on an out-of-this-world journey, flew around the Moon on Monday. The crew members took turns describing the stunning landscape below and captured ...
On April 6, 2026, four astronauts aboard NASA’s Orion spacecraft, Integrity, swung around the far side of the moon, traveling farther from the Earth than any humans had ever gone before, and taking ...
Scientists prefer to call the backside of the moon its “far” side. By Andrea Kannapell “The dark side of the moon”: The term has a poetic ring. It has long been mined in popular culture, not least by ...
These aren’t official photos of the moon from the Artemis II mission. A NASA spokesperson said the only official images from the mission are published on NASA.gov. PolitiFact found that some of the ...
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA's first crewed moon mission in more than 50 years is underway. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. NASA ...
It's no April Fools' joke. The first full moon of spring, called the Pink Moon, will land on April 1. According to the Farmer's Almanac, the full moon will peak around 10:12 p.m. ET on Wednesday, ...