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The moon will pass closely by Jupiter this evening (Jan. 10), meeting up with the gas giant in the constellation Taurus.

NASA's upcoming Artemis II mission is slated to return astronauts to the Moon no sooner than April 2026. Astronauts were last on the Moon in 1972 ...

The map uses BFsc—shorthand for smooth ... In contrast, most of the moon's surface rocks are older than about 2.5 billion years. Luckily, the moon is close enough in the solar system that ...

Though 2025 won't mark the return of astronauts into deep space as NASA had hoped, launchpads still will be scorching-hot from a procession of robotic spacecraft attempting to land on the moon . How ...

The resulting lunar map is constantly evolving. Over time, new names are added while existing names are dropped or changed after research shows a feature to be of a different geological type.

But how did these places get their names? Who named Copernicus Crater? Where did all those names on lunar maps come from, and what stimulated their selection? Ewen Whitaker traces the origins and ...

What is the moon phase today? Today, Jan. 9, 2025, the moon is 10 days old, in the waxing gibbous phase of its lunar cycle. It is 80% illuminated. Moon phases reveal the passage of time in the ...

A Tetracorder map of the Moon showing water absorption areas (with an Earth-based image of the Moon in the center right to establish the boundaries of this map). The different colors represent ...

Your best chance of viewing will be during the wee morning hours as the moon is still in the sky. Staying away from major ...

The first is the SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer).