Here's what the moon is doing today, June 25, 2025. What is today’s moon phase? As of Wednesday, June 25, the moon phase is ...

Countless shadowed craters line the terminator all the way down to the moon's southern pole, while the 54-mile-wide (87 km) Aristotles Crater and smaller Eudoxus Crater form a tempting target on the ...

The summer solstice falls this month, occurring on June 20, which means that the sun typically appears higher in the sky and moon seems closer to the horizon because the celestial bodies are ...

The globular cluster Messier 22 (M22) reaches its highest point in the sky around midnight local time, specifically for ...

The moon goes through eight phases during each cycle. NASA/Bill Dunford. When you look up at the moon, you might think about how it's shining like a lantern in the sky.

The astronauts of Apollo 8 were the first men to see the far side of the moon with their own eyes, without the aid of optical devices. From their orbital altitude of 69 statute miles, Frank Borman ...

As the sun sets, the shadow of the planet moves upwards and into the atmosphere. There will also be a parade of four planets on display. Look for Venus, Saturn, Jupiter and Mars through midnight.

A pair of European satellites have created the first artificial solar eclipses through precise and fancy formation flying ...

"We orbit the moon for two to three days, basically to let the sun move over the landing site," he says. Once that happens, the probe can land, as the lander's solar panels need sun to generate power.

In fact, although the air near the horizon does indeed act like a lens, its actual effect is to make the sun and moon look squished, like flat ovals, not to simply magnify them. So that can’t be ...

In West Michigan, 95% of the sun was blocked by the moon. It was still light out because we were not in the path of totality, but it got dim and was a cool scene looking at the sun with solar ...

Blue Ghost's first look of the eclipse came at about 1:30 a.m. EST Friday from the spacecraft's landing site in Mare Crisium, a 300-mile-wide basin on the near side of the moon believed to have ...