The next and first full moon of the year, also known as the Wolf Moon, will be in peak view on Monday. January's full moon will reach peak illumination at 5:27 p.m. ET on Monday, according to NASA.

Francis Nimmo has previously received NASA funding relevant to the Moon. A physicist, a chemist and a mathematician walk into a bar. It sounds like the start of a bad joke, but in my case ...

The moon may be much older than previously thought, according to a new study. Planetary scientists believe the moon's surface may have "remelted" around 4.35 billion years ago, masking much older ...

The Moon has long been the Earth's close companion, but researchers have struggled to understand exactly when the moon formed, because tiny crystals in the moon rocks brought home by astronauts ...

NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services, or CLPS, initiative aims to deliver science and technology payloads to the Moon using commercial landers. CLPS is what brought Intuitive Machines ...

Artist's impression of what the Moon looked like during the tidal-heating event. There would have been intense volcanic activity everywhere. The early Earth would have loomed much larger in the sky ...

But Earth wasn't the only target; the moon is regularly bombarded with such meteors, and Daichi Fujii, the curator of the Hiratsuka City Museum in Japan, has captured some of the most recent ...

Here’s how it works. An uncrewed Orion spacecraft successfully traveled thousands of miles beyond the moon and back, demonstrating its ability to one day transport astronauts to lunar orbit ...

The phenomenon of a Full Moon arises when our planet, Earth, is precisely sandwiched between the Sun and the Moon. This alignment ensures the entire side of the Moon that faces us gleams under ...

Earth won't experience another Blue Moon until 2026. Here we explore this phenomenon in more detail. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how ...