What is the moon phase today? Today, Jan. 25, 2025, the moon is 26 days old, in the Waning Crescent phase of its lunar cycle. It is 15% illuminated. Moon phases reveal the passage of time in the ...

Stargazers worldwide have been treated to the first glorious night sky sight of 2025 — a panorama of bright planet Venus and a delicate crescent moon. Best viewed on Jan. 3, the duo appeared to ...

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 ...

A team of engineers is advancing space innovation by developing a groundbreaking machine to produce oxygen on the moon. The project takes place within a giant vacuum sphere, pushing the limits of ...

Here are the dates for the full moons in 2025. The next full moon will be on Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025. It will officially reach its full moon phase at 8:53 a.m. EDT (1353 GMT) but local moonrise ...

Even small-scale operations might disturb enough dust to create visible changes over time. By the end of this decade, nations and private companies may well be mining the surface of the Moon.

When material is extracted from the moon, dust gets kicked up. Without an atmosphere to slow it down, this lunar dust can travel vast distances. That surface material is "space weathered" and ...

The Regolith Adherence Characterization (RAC) experiment is one of a handful of payloads on Blue Ghost focused on lunar regolith, or moon dust. In fact, the Mare Crisium landing site was chosen ...

MIT and Shaan Jagani Palak Patel has been working on ways to extract oxygen and metal from lunar dust Obviously the more resources that can be made on the moon the better. Sierra Space’s system ...

There are more ways for people to travel to space than ever before, and the next few decades are likely to see the US and China sending humans to the Moon again. Both countries aim to set up long ...