Earth's Moon

The next full Moon will be Wednesday night, August 30, 2023. The Moon will appear full for 3 days around from Tuesday night to Friday morning.

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Twelve of the 24 men who traveled from Earth to the Moon walked on its surface. The first, and most famous, was Neil Armstrong in 1969. The last man on the Moon – to date – was Gene Cernan in 1972.

The next full Moon will be on Thursday morning, April 6. It will appear full from Tuesday evening to Friday morning.

Research reveals a new explanation for how the icy shell of Jupiter’s moon Europa rotates at a different rate than its interior.

Based on observations from several NASA missions, the map details the path of the Moon’s shadow as it crosses the contiguous U.S. during eclipses in 2023 and 2024.

The next full moon will be Tuesday, March 7, 2023 at 7:40 AM EST. The Moon will appear full Sunday through Wednesday.

The next full Moon will be on Sunday, Feb. 5, 2023. The Moon will appear full from early Saturday morning through early Tuesday morning.

Why does the Moon look so big when it's rising or setting? The Moon illusion is the name for this trick our brains play on us.

The next full Moon will be Friday evening, Jan. 6, 2023, at 6:08 PM EST. The Moon will appear full from Thursday evening through Sunday morning.

Lunar Flashlight will hunt for surface water ice inside dark regions on the Moon that haven’t seen sunlight in billions of years.

Following a successful launch of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS), the most powerful rocket in the world, the agency’s Orion spacecraft is on its way to the Moon.

The next full Moon will be Tuesday morning, November 8, 2022 at 6:02 AM EST.

This page showcases our resources for those interested in learning more about ocean worlds.

Movies from NASA’s NEOWISE space telescope are revealing motion and change across the sky.

A rigorous testing program is the best way to ensure that every part of the SWOT mission will work smoothly in orbit.

The next full moon is the Hunter's Moon; the Travel, Dying Grass, Sanguine, or Blood Moon.

The Next Full moon is the Harvest Moon

Six of these small satellites will work together to create the largest radio telescope ever launched.

The next full moon is called the Sturgeon Moon and it’s a marginal supermoon.

The ECOSTRESS instrument is helping scientists learn why some parts of a wildfire burn more intensely than others.

When NASA’s Orion spacecraft travels beyond the Moon during Artemis I, the spacecraft will carry a host of mementos.

The huge amount of water vapor hurled into the atmosphere could end up temporarily warming Earth’s surface.

EMIT will help answer questions about how mineral dust from Earth’s arid regions affects climate.

To most of us, dust is an annoyance. But these tiny particles that float about and settle on surfaces play an important role across the solar system.