As of Tuesday, Aug. 12, the moon phase is Waning Gibbous, and it is 88% lit up to us on Earth, according to NASA's Daily Moon ...

NASA is launching the second phase of its moon recycling competition to clean up trash in space, including plastics, foams ...

A final "gee-whiz" fact you can reveal to your friends is that what you are seeing in Monday's sky is an illusion of ...

This stunning view of the full Sturgeon Moon suspended between New York's iconic skyscrapers was taken by Nazli Zeynep ...

The sturgeon moon was also a supermoon, meaning a full moon at the point in its elliptical orbit that's close to Earth.

In April 2025, China reportedly unveiled plans to build a nuclear power plant on the Moon by 2035. This plant would support ...

Under ideal viewing conditions with no moon, the shower can produce more than 60 meteors per hour - but moonlight will ...

Placing an atomic energy source on the lunar surface is “not science fiction,” experts say, but does pose technical ...

Nuclear reactors in space may sound like something out of science fiction, but they are likely to prove important for ...

August’s full moon comes with a “celestial bonus,” per the Farmer’s Almanac. When the full moon sets in the early morning, ...

We’ve all been enjoying these bright full moons of summer, but a black moon is now on the rise. Not an official astronomical ...

On Monday night, Aug. 11, the moon will be in its waning gibbous phase at roughly 94% illuminated after this past weekend's ...