Earth's Moon

Technicians recently finished applying more than 180 blocks of ablative material to the heat shield for the Orion spacecraft.

The number of illegal gold mines in the Amazon is increasing so fast that activists have turned to satellite imagery to identify them.

Data from the LRO spacecraft indicates the Moon’s subsurface might be richer in metal than thought.

The next full Moon will be early Sunday morning, July 5, 2020. There also will be a partial penumbral eclipse of the Moon.

Which way the solar wind blows has new importance as NASA again prepares to send astronauts to the Moon.

The flight computers and avionics of the Space Launch System rocket’s core stage completed a thorough systems checkout.

NASA has taken the next steps toward building Space Launch System (SLS) solid rocket boosters for as many as six additional flights.

Didymos B is getting an official name of its own: Dimorphos.

Planetary scientist Geronimo Villanueva created the sunset simulations while building a tool for a possible mission to Uranus.

The rocket booster segments that will help power NASA’s first Artemis flight test mission around the Moon arrived at KSC.

The water-seeking mobile VIPER robot will help pave the way for astronaut missions to the lunar surface beginning in 2024.

The Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon, Mead Moon, Honey Moon, Vat Purnima, Poson Poya, and the LRO Moon.

The next full Moon will be on on Thursday morning, May 7. It's the last in a series of four "supermoons."

NASA's Lunar Flashlight, a briefcase-sized satellite, or CubeSat, will detect surface ice believed to be at the bottom of craters on the Moon that have never been exposed to sunlight. This may help provide water for astronauts exploring the Moon during the Artemis program.

Before NASA’s mighty Space Launch System (SLS) rocket can blast off from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center to send the Orion spacecraft into lunar orbit, teams across the country conduct extensive tests. Guiding that effort are NASA test directors, or NTDs.

NASA has selected Masten Space Systems to deliver and operate eight payloads – with nine science and technology instruments – to the Moon’s South Pole in 2022.

The next full Moon will be on Tuesday night, April 7.

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.

Fun — and even educational — NASA activities to do at home.

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.

The next full Moon, a "supermoon," will be on Monday, March 9, appearing full from early Sunday morning into early Wednesday morning.

The Voyager imaging team asked for the photo to show Earth’s vulnerability — to illustrate how small, fragile and irreplaceable it is on a cosmic scale.

Surrounded by California desert, NASA officials broke ground Tuesday, Feb. 11, on a new antenna for communicating with the agency's farthest-flung robotic spacecraft.

The following is a statement from NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine.

The next full Moon will be early on Sunday morning, Feb. 9, 2020, at 2:33 AM EST. The Moon will appear full from Friday evening to Monday morning, making this a full Moon weekend.