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Japan's Resilience moon lander arrives in lunar orbit ahead of historic touchdown try

By Mike Wall published

Japan's private Resilience lunar lander arrived in orbit around the moon on Tuesday (May 6), a month ahead of its planned touchdown try.

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What is the moon phase today? Lunar phases 2025

By Tariq Malik, Daisy Dobrijevic last updated

Reference See what moon phase it is tonight and find out when you can see the rest of the moon phases for 2025.

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A giant orb takes up the majority of the image, bordered on either sitde by black. Its face is riddled with craters, with colors blotched throughout in vibrant blues, greens, yellows, and reds.

A giant crater on the moon may hold remnants of an ancient magma ocean. Artemis astronauts could bring home samples of it

By Nola Taylor Tillman published

Crewmembers on upcoming Artemis missions could potentially return samples from the moon's mantle back to Earth, providing insight into the final stages of lunar formation.

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What time is it on the moon? US House space committee wants a standard lunar clock

By John Loeffler published

Time moves faster on the moon, and now we're one step closer to getting a lunar time zone to keep track of it.

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Composite image of the moon created using data gathered by the joint NASA-DoD Clementine mission in 1994

DARPA wants a spacecraft to search for water on the moon

By Julian Dossett published

DARPA (the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) is looking for a private company to build spacecraft to orbit the moon and search for water.

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a bright white full moon rises above the ruins of an ancient building

May full moon 2025: The Flower Moon hides the red star Antares

By Jesse Emspak last updated

Reference The Full Flower Moon of 2025 will occur in the eastern U.S. during the evening hours of May 12. Two days later, the just-past-full moon will occult the star Antares.

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The full moon as seen from the International Space Station on Dec. 8, 2022. The moon is setting below Earth’s horizon as the station flew 269 miles above the southern Indian Ocean.

Easter is coming late in 2025, astronomically speaking. Here's why

By Joe Rao published

Easter falls on the Sunday that follows the first full moon occurring on or after the day of the spring equinox. So it seems like Easter should be this weekend. Here's why it isn't.

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a silver open-air four-wheeled vehicle on a showroom floor

Lunar Outpost unveils sleek new 'Eagle' moon rover (photos)

By Brett Tingley published

Lunar Outpost unveiled its new "Eagle" moon rover at the 40th annual Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, and it looks straight out of science fiction.

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This view shows the thin crescent Moon setting over ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile. As well as the bright crescent the rest of the disc of the Moon can be faintly seen. This phenomenon is called earthshine. It is due to sunlight reflecting off the Earth and illuminating the lunar surface. By observing earthshine astronomers can study the properties of light reflected from Earth as if it were an exoplanet and search for signs of life. This picture was taken on 27 October 2011 and also records the planets Mercury and Venus.

Did Covid lockdowns really cause temperatures on the moon to drop?

By Nola Taylor Tillman published

Scientists have been arguing about a curious topic recently: Did temperatures on the moon dip due to the world's Covid-19 lockdown?

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Artist's illustration of Astrobotic's Griffin lunar lander and Astrolab's FLIP rover on the moon.

Private FLIP moon rover replaces NASA's cancelled VIPER on 2025 lunar south pole mission

By Mike Wall published

Astrolab's FLIP moon rover has replaced NASA's VIPER vehicle on the first-ever mission of Astrobotic's Griffin lunar lander, which is scheduled to launch in late 2025.

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