Today, Jan. 29, 2025, the moon is 30 days old, in the New Moon phase of its lunar cycle. It is 0% illuminated. Moon phases reveal the passage of time in the night sky. Some nights when we look up ...

Blue Ghost is Firefly's first-ever moon lander. It launched on Jan. 15 atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, which also carried a second private lunar lander — Resilience, which was built by the ...

Rather than following the western Gregorian Calendar with 365-day years, the Chinese New Year follows a lunar calendar based the moon's 12 phases. Each phase cycle spans approximately 29 days with ...

A chunk of space rock that visited near Earth's orbit last year was widely referred to as a "mini-moon." Turns out the lunar-inspired moniker may have been more accurate than we realized.

When is Lunar New Year? What is it? Here’s what to know. The Chinese New Year will begin on January 29, 2025, according to Parade. The celebration lasts up to 16 days, or until the full moon.

Thanks to the Moon’s orbit around Earth, the angle of sunlight hitting the lunar surface and being reflected back to our planet changes. That creates different lunar phases. The next Full Moon ...

The discovery sheds light on a rare but growing population of lunar asteroids, which could reveal just how many times impacts on the moon have sent wayward space rocks flying into the vicinity of ...