Earth's Moon

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The Next Full Moon is a Blue Moon, the Flower Moon, the Corn Planting Moon, the Milk Moon and Buddha Purnima.

A photo from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter shows the landing site of the Israeli Beresheet spacecraft on a region of the Moon called Sea of Serenity.

The Moon is shrinking as its interior cools, forming “thrust faults” that generate moonquakes.

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine sent a video message to agency employees Monday about the president’s fiscal year 2020 budget amendment, which will support accelerated plans to land astronauts on the Moon by 2024.

High-resolution images show the Moon's lava plains are part of a much younger, shifting landscape than scientists realized.

Kilopower, a power system to enable long-duration stays on planetary surfaces, including the Moon and Mars.

Ten suggestions for making the most of a moonlit night with your camera.

A supermoon occurs when the moon’s orbit is closest (perigee) to Earth at the same time it is full.

Next week at the 2019 Planetary Defense Conference, NASA’s PDCO and other U.S. agencies and space science institutions, along with international partners, will participate in a “tabletop exercise” that will play out a realistic—but fictional—scenario for an asteroid on an impact trajectory with Earth.

Mientras celebramos el Día de la Tierra de 2019, mostramos 10 imágenes de nuestro planeta como solo se le puede ver desde la distancia del espacio profundo.

As we celebrate Earth Day 2019, here are 10 views of our home world — as it can only be seen from the distance of deep space.

The next full Moon is the Flower Moon, the Corn Planting Moon, the Milk Moon, the Pink Moon, the Sprouting Grass Moon and Bak Poya.

Scientists have found evidence that Mercury’s inner core is indeed solid and that it is very nearly the same size as Earth’s inner core.

NASA is working right now to send American astronauts to the surface of the Moon in five years, and the agency has its sights set on a place no humans have ever gone before: the lunar South Pole.

New research shows streams of meteoroids striking the Moon infuse the thin lunar atmosphere with a short-lived water vapor.

Following a nearly two-month journey, the first private robotic spacecraft to attempt a Moon landing is on track to meet its goal on April 11, and NASA is a partner in SpaceIL’s Beresheet mission

From precision GPS to batteries for one of the world’s first commercial all-electric airplanes, NASA technology turns up in nearly every corner of modern life.

Twenty-four human beings have traveled from the Earth to Moon and 12 walked on its surface—so far.

NASA is charged to get American astronauts to the Moon in the next five years. It is the right time for this challenge, and I assured the Vice President that we, the people of NASA, are up to the challenge

​On Dec. 18, 2018, a large "fireball" — the term used for exceptionally bright meteors that are visible over a wide area — exploded about 16 miles (26 kilometers) above the Bering Sea.

Whether you're doing it for the nerd cred or the pie, this week on #10Things, we've got all the ways you can celebrate #PiDay with NASA.

Just as dust gathers in corners and along bookshelves in our homes, dust piles up in space too. But when the dust settles in the solar system, it’s often in rings.

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine outlines plans to go to the Moon and then on to Mars.

We will go to the Moon in the next decade in a way we have never gone before. This time, when we go to the Moon, we will stay.