Also rare this year: a full moon during Christmas. Known as the Cold Moon and the Long Night Moon, December’s lunar rarity will ... 1:28 Full eclipse of ‘Beaver Blood Moon’ over Alberta ...

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A new study has uncovered evidence that the moon is still geologically active, contradicting previous beliefs that its ...

The Blue Ghost lunar lander has captured its first images of the moon from the spacecraft’s orbit around Earth, the Texas-based company Firefly Aerospace announced this week. The two images ...

What is the moon phase today? Today, Feb. 4, 2025, the moon is 6 days old, in the waxing crescent phase of its lunar cycle. It is 43% illuminated. Moon phases reveal the passage of time in the ...

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 Blue Ghost lunar lander has captured its first images of the moon from the spacecraft’s orbit around Earth, the Texas-based company Firefly Aerospace announced this week. The two images — which ...

Occasionally, the moon's orbit carries it into Earth's shadow, causing a lunar eclipse. However, February's full moon will bypass Earth's shadow because the moon's orbit is tilted about five ...