What is the moon phase today?Today, Nov. 5, 2025, the moon is 15 days old and is in the Full Moon phase of its lunar cycle.

The United States and China are locked in a contest to be the first country to send humans to the lunar surface in half a ...

The November full moon put on a magnificent show for stargazers on Nov. 5, as the largest and brightest supermoon of 2025 ...

Astronomers have long known that the moon and its thin outer layer of soil, called regolith, contains a bevy of potentially ...

The first flash, on Thursday, emerged just east of the 70-mile-wide Gassendi Crater. The second appeared west of Oceanus ...

A gibbous moon, like the one captured here, refers to a phase in which the moon is more than half illuminated but not yet ...

JAXA small lunar landing demonstrator "SLIM ". Watch how it travels to the moon's surface in this animated explainer. Credit: ...

SpaceX, billionaire Elon Musk's commercial rocket company, says it's working on a "simplified" plan for its Starship to land ...

Earth's atmosphere is an impediment to astronomical observations. Not only is cloudy weather a problem, but temperature ...

While helium-3 is exceedingly rare on Earth, it’s plentiful on the Moon. But getting it won’t be simple. The race to harvest ...

On October 30 and November 1, Daichi Fujii, an astronomy curator at the Hiratsuka City Museum in Japan, used his telescope to capture pinprick-sized flashes on the shaded side of the moon. Were the ...

The November full moon is upon us, heralding a spectacular natural light show as the largest supermoon of 2025 takes to the ...