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

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On Jan. 13, bright Mars will disappear behind the full moon for several hours. It's the only lunar occultation of Mars ...

Sanctuary on the Moon’ is a lunar time capsule that provides a detailed guide to life on Earth for our future selves.

On Jan. 9, skywatchers can watch the dark limb of the 82%-illuminated waxing gibbous moon creep across this beloved star ...

As the Apollo program closed in on its goal, cartographers relied on photos from 1966 and 1967 orbiter missions to create the February 1969 hand-­painted map—considered the best reference at ...

What's it like to walk on the moon? Join the Apollo astronauts on the surface in this series of stunning 360-degree panoramas, one each from the six successful Apollo moon landings. Shot by the ...

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 ...

And when Ebb and Flow had fulfilled their duties, NASA crashed them into a rocky hillside on the moon. These "psychedelic" maps and an ashy crater are all that remain. NASA's Scientific ...

Ordnance Survey (OS) has released a new map of the Moon to celebrate the 50th anniversary of humans landing there. OS has been producing detailed maps of Great Britain for almost 230 years ...

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is currently working on the highest resolution 3D map of the Moon to date. Chandrayaan 2 ’s orbiter is using a combination of four instruments to ...