What is the moon phase today? Today, Jan. 8, 2025, the moon is 9 days old, in the waxing gibbous phase of its lunar cycle. It is 70% illuminated. Moon phases reveal the passage of time in the ...

I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the ...

As the Apollo program closed in on its goal, cartographers relied on photos from 1966 and 1967 orbiter missions to create the February 1969 hand-­painted map—considered the best reference at ...

NASA's upcoming Artemis II mission is slated to return astronauts to the Moon no sooner than April 2026. Astronauts were last on the Moon in 1972 ...