Moon

On January 30, the moon eclipsed mars in what is referred to as an Occultation. That’s when a planet disappears from our view directly behind the moon’s left side and reappears an hour later on the opposite side. Only a small portion of the planet was able to see the occultation, including areas between southern California all the way to...

NASA’s Artemis I mission to send the unmanned Orion spacecraft on a test flight to the moon ended in a successful water landing in the Pacific Ocean on Sunday.

Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa announced Friday that eight people who will join him on a flight around the moon on a SpaceX spaceship in the coming years. See the full list.

The lunar eclipse will be visible before dawn on Tuesday morning, and it’ll be another three years before the next total eclipse is visible.

It’s not just rocket fuel propelling America’s first moonshot after a half-century lull.

A fuel leak forces NASA’s moon rocket launch to be scrubbed for the second time

NASA’s new moon rocket remains on track for a Monday liftoff, despite a series of lightning strikes at the launch pad. Officials said Sunday that neither the rocket nor ground equipment suffered any damage. Five lightning strikes were confirmed Saturday, hitting the 600-foot towers surrounding the rocket at Florida’s Kennedy Space Center. The 322-foot rocket is the most powerful ever...

James Free, associate of NASA’s Exploration Systems Development, spoke Friday about the longterm goals of the Artemis moonshot program. “We want to stay on the lunar surface and learn on the lunar surface so that we can get the most science [to] know how we’re going to go to Mars.”

Artemis is NASA’s moonshot program, which aims to return astronauts to the lunar surface of the moon by 2025.

Pull out those binoculars’ lunar lovers as this week’s supermoon is set to be the biggest and brightest of them all.

The space agency has asked Boston-based RR Auction to halt the sale of moon dust collected during the 1969 Apollo 11 mission that had subsequently been fed to cockroaches during an experiment to determine if the lunar rock contained any sort of pathogen that posed a threat to terrestrial life.

The strawberry supermoon will light up the sky this week. We beak down a supermoon is and when you can see it in San Diego.

June 14 will be a strawberry super moon. What exactly is it and how can you see it?

The celestial action unfolded Sunday night into early Monday morning, with the moon bathed in the reflected red and orange hues of Earth’s sunsets and sunrises.

May’s full moon comes with a lunar eclipse and a fun name. Here’s what to know.

For the first time, scientists have grown plants in soil from the moon collected by NASA’s Apollo astronauts.

May’s full moon comes with a lunar eclipse and a fun name. Here’s what to know.

The rare “super flower blood moon” occurs when the Earth is positioned directly between the moon and the sun.