Today, Feb. 13, 2025, the moon is 15 days old and is in the Full Moon phase of its lunar cycle. It is 99% illuminated. Moon phases reveal the passage of time in the night sky. Some nights when we ...

Each of these primary moon phases marks a quarter of the lunar cycle and lasts only a moment. The remaining phases – "waxing crescent," "waxing gibbous," "waning gibbous," and "waxing gibbous ...

Graphic: Clare Meredith The moon cycle is like a cosmic metronome, helping us to understand when to be active and productive, and when we need to chill instead. One full cycle of the moon ...

Feb. 21 (UPI) --Google is celebrating the February moon cycle with an interactive Doodle. The moon will appear half full when it rises Friday night, earning it's "half moon" nickname, even though ...

A cycle starting from one Full Moon to its next counterpart, termed the synodic month or lunar month, lasts about 29.5 days. Though a Full Moon only occurs during the exact moment when Earth ...

Reporting on missions to the moon and beyond. NASA is aiming to send astronauts back to the moon, because that is what President Trump set as the destination of the agency’s human spaceflight ...

Here are the dates for the full moons in 2025. The next full moon will be on Friday, March 14, 2025. It will officially reach its full moon phase at 2:55 a.m. EDT (0755 GMT) but local moonrise ...

On the night of March 13, the moon will enter Earth's shadow, creating a total lunar eclipse — the first since November 2022. By checking the map linked above you will be able to see the ...

Its mission? Understanding the mysterious ways water forms on the moon. The Lunar Trailblazer is prepped to study the water cycle and collect several datasets that map the water on the lunar surface, ...

We tend to think of the moon as a cold, dusty rock, but in fact, its surface can get pretty hot during a lunar day. How hot? It turns out that the answer can vary dramatically over a very short ...