Earth's Moon

The rover will be delivered to the Moon's surface in late 2023. VIPER is the first resource-mapping mission on the surface of another celestial body.

The Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon, the Fruit Moon, the Barley Moon, and the Corn Moon.

The Next Full Moon is a Blue Moon, and is also known as the Hungry Ghost Moon.

The facility that houses the world’s most powerful space simulation chambers has now been named for the world’s most famous astronaut.

A new online visualization tool will enable anyone to see what sea levels will look like anywhere in the world in the decades to come.

Fragments from deep within the Moon may provide a better understanding of how the Moon, the Earth, and other worlds evolved.

The shadows cast by the roughness of the Moon’s surface create small cold spots for water ice to accumulate even during the harsh lunar daytime.

For the first time, astronomers have uncovered evidence of water vapor in the atmosphere of Jupiter's moon Ganymede.

NASA has selected SpaceX to provide launch services for Earth’s first mission to conduct detailed investigations of Jupiter's moon Europa.

The next full Moon goes by many names including the Buck Moon.

The Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, or VIPER, is part of NASA’s Artemis program.

In the mid-2030s, every U.S. coast will have rapidly increasing high tide floods, when a lunar cycle will amplify rising sea levels.

The next full Moon is the Strawberry Moon and a marginal Supermoon.

Some places on Earth are so extreme that NASA uses them as stand-ins for other worlds. These locations are called planetary analogs.

The next full Moon is the Super Flower Blood Moon. There will also be a lunar eclipse.

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.

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.

This NASA concept could see robots hang wire mesh in a crater on the Moon’s far side, creating a radio telescope to probe the dawn of the universe.

Twelve of the 24 human beings who have traveled from Earth to the Moon have walked on its surface — so far. The first, and most famous, was Neil Armstrong in 1969. The last human on the Moon — to date — was Gene Cernan in 1972.

The next full Moon will be the Pink Supermoon, on Monday night April 26, 2021. It will appear full from Sunday night through Wednesday morning.

NASA has selected SpaceX to carry the next two American astronauts to the Moon.

The computer software and hardware – called the spacecraft command and control system (SCCS) – is now certified for use on Artemis I.

A technique for scanning Mars rocks for microscopic fossils is also being developed to hunt for microbes on Enceladus, Titan, and Europa.

The next full Moon will be Sunday afternoon, March 28, 2021. It will appear full from Saturday morning into early Tuesday morning.