A spectacular blue super Moon has been lighting up skies across the south. Unlike the name suggests - it's nothing to do with the Moon's colour - but the rarity of a second full moon in one ...

Thursday's clear night sky was illuminated by the brightest supermoon of the year. October's full moon is known as the Hunter ...

Chandrayaan-4, which aims to collect roughly 6.6 pounds (3 kilograms) of lunar samples from a water-ice-rich area near the ...

I remember watching the full moon rise one early evening a while back. It was when I still lived in Colorado, and I was standing outside in my yard. I first noticed a glow to the east lighting up ...

Current and upcoming Moon missions focus on exploring the lunar south pole in particular, with frozen water presumed to exist in deep craters at both poles. All of which raises the question of we ...

Sunset at Atlas and Hercules Craters from the Photographic Atlas of the Moon, by Robert Reeves. The moon is back in fashion, but how well do you know it? It's been over 55 years since Neil ...

The largest and oldest-known impact site on the moon is the South Pole-Aitken basin. Thanks to new research, scientists have dated the basin to the period between 4.32 and 4.33 billion years ago.

Our satellite passes 4° north of Uranus at 8 P.M. EST; at that time, the Moon stands just to the right of the Pleiades (M45), a bright open star cluster in Taurus the Bull. South of the Moon ...

It would explore the moon’s south pole in late 2024, NASA says, for a 100-day mission. “VIPER is going to help us with in-situ-resource utilization by mapping where the ice is,” Melroy said.

As such, the term Earthshine is sometimes referred to as "The old moon in the new moon's arms." The glow is produced by light from a fully illuminated Earth reflecting off the lunar surface.

The full moon on its own makes people stop and stare, but the one that'll be in the sky until Friday is even more unique than usual. And if you thought it looked gorgeous Tuesday night ...

October's full moon is known as the Hunter's Moon. Photographers from Hampshire, Dorset, the Isle of Wight, Oxfordshire and Berkshire were on hand to capture the lunar event. A supermoon occurs ...