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Scientists say a giant impact knocked off the raw ingredients for the moon off the primitive molten Earth and into orbit.

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From his balcony in Rome, Gianluca Masi captured this night-sky image of Jupiter, Venus, Mars and Saturn (plus the moon) lined up.

4 planets line up like ducks in a row in gorgeous night-sky image

By Stephanie Pappas published

The moon is leading a parade of four planets across the predawn sky this week.

The first solar eclipse of 2022 occurs during a rare Black Moon on April 30, 2022.

Rare Black Moon to block sun in 1st solar eclipse of 2022. See a Venus-Jupiter meetup near Eid, too.

By Elizabeth Howell published

A rare Black Moon new moon will occur during 2022's first solar eclipse ahead of Eid and just after a big Venus-Jupiter meetup.

Your artwork could make it here, thanks to a new competition.

New contest will send artwork to the moon

By Scott Dutfield published

300 lucky artists will have their art flown on a one-way ticket to the moon.

Some of moon's water deposits may have come from Earth.

Some of the moon's water may come from Earth, study suggests

By Tereza Pultarova published

Some of the water deposits that scientists believe exist on the moon may have an unexpected source — the atmosphere of our Earth.

A NASA volunteer carries a 30-pound (14 kilograms) object while in a spacesuit connected to NASA’s Active Response Gravity Offload System (ARGOS).

Obstacle course tests NASA astronauts' mission readiness after moon or Mars landing

By Robert Lea published

Humanity is preparing for the next stage of space exploration that will involve stepping foot on the moon and Mars, by testing its astronauts' mission readiness.

The Iceland Space Agency supported the MS2 ERE1 project, which was done in partnership with AdventureX to test and further develop a spacesuit simulator.

Iceland emerging as popular practice site for moon and Mars exploration

By Leonard David published

Iceland is an increasingly popular testing zone for spacesuits, habitats and off-world vehicles.

Artist's illustration showing the CAPSTONE spacecraft in a near rectilinear halo orbit (NRHO) around the moon.

Little CAPSTONE cubesat ready to launch on big moon mission next month

By Leonard David published

Early next month, Rocket Lab is slated to launch a pathfinding cubesat mission that supports NASA's Artemis return-to-the moon program.

A partial solar eclipse gives the sun a crescent shape, or makes it appear as if a "bite" has been taken out of the sun.

How to watch the April 2022 solar eclipse online

By Samantha Mathewson published

The first solar eclipse of 2022 arrives this week across parts of the Southern Hemisphere — here's how you can watch the event live online from other parts of the world.

Michael Zanetti, a NASA planetary scientist at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, testing the Kinematic Navigational and Cartography Knapsack (KNaCK) in late 2021. Zanetti was at the Cinder cone in Portillo volcanic field in New Mexico.

This NASA 'lunar backpack' will help Artemis astronauts explore the moon

By Elizabeth Howell published

As Artemis astronauts walk on the moon, these NASA backpacks will chronicle lunar features in context.

NASA's Artemis 1 moon mission stack rolls toward the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center in Florida in the early morning hours of April 26, 2022.

NASA's Artemis 1 moon rocket rolls off the launch pad for repairs (photos)

By Josh Dinner published

NASA's Artemis 1 moon mission has returned to the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center following incomplete "wet dress rehearsal" attempts earlier this month.

Curiosity will be taking shots like this on Mars for another three years.

These 8 NASA missions just got more time to explore Mars, asteroids and the solar system

By Elizabeth Howell published

Mars, the moon and asteroids will get a deeper look from these spacecraft with eight NASA mission extensions.

The Black Moon will occur on Apr, 30. 2022. Pictured here is the earliest visible waxing crescent after a new moon.

Black Moon 2022 guide: April's rare second new moon

By Joe Rao published

Reference This year's Black Moon will occur on April 30. The rare occurrence will cause a partial solar eclipse for some parts of South America.

NASA’s crawler-transporter 2 vehicle makes its way along the crawlerway to Launch Complex 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. In view atop the mobile launcher on the pad are the Artemis 1 Space Launch System (SLS) and Orion spacecraft.

Watch NASA roll Artemis 1 moon rocket off the launch pad tonight

By Mike Wall published

NASA will roll its Artemis 1 moon rocket off the launch pad today (April 25) at about 5:30 p.m. EDT (2130 GMT), and you can watch the action live.

An artist's depiction of the Chandrayaan-2 lander, Vikram, preparing to alight on the lunar surface. The procedure occurred on Sept. 6, 2019, but appears to have gone wrong, with the Indian space agency losing contact with the lander late in the maneuver.

India continuing work on moon landing and crewed spaceflight plans despite delays

By Andrew Jones published

India's space agency is proceeding very cautiously after the hard landing of its previous lunar lander in 2019.

The moon looms in the foreground, with a small Earth in the background.

US government report proposed nuking the moon, newly released documents reveal

By Brandon Specktor published

The U.S. government's UFO program, AATIP, was funding secret research into invisibility, wormholes, and antigravity, newly released documents reveal.

A Blue Moon is a rare occurrence that depends on the timings of full moons during the year.

Blue Moon: What is it and when does it occur?

By Daisy Dobrijevic published

Reference A Blue Moon is a rare occurrence that depends on the timings of full moons during the year. The moon is not blue during a Blue Moon.

Conjunctions are happily, common in the night sky. Here is a past one: Jupiter (left) and Saturn (right) are seen after sunset above Jordan Lake during the "great conjunction" on Dec. 21, 2020, near Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

See 4 planets line up with the moon in the predawn sky

By Elizabeth Howell published

The quarter-phase moon points to a stunning set of planets low in the sky: Saturn, Mars, Venus and Jupiter.

Pittsburgh-based company Astrobotic unveiled the flight model of its robotic Peregrine moon lander on April 20, 2022. The vehicle is scheduled to launch to the moon late this year.

Astrobotic unveils Peregrine lunar lander that will fly to the moon this year (photos)

By Samantha Mathewson published

Astrobotic just unveiled the flight model of its robotic Peregrine lunar lander, which is slated to launch to the moon late this year.

The full moon beneath Paris' Arc de Triomphe on April 17, 2022.

Full moon looms under icon of Paris in incredible photo

By Elizabeth Howell published

Our lunar neighbor shines beneath the Arc de Triomphe, a French monument inspired by Roman architecture.

Artist's impression of the new crew transportation vehicle expected to be used for Artemis 2.

NASA's Artemis astronauts will ride to launchpad in sleek new electric vans

By Elizabeth Howell published

The vehicles replace the Astrovans used for the space shuttle program, between 1983 and 2011.