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As of Monday, July 7, the moon phase is Waxing Gibbous. From Earth, 89% of the moon will appear visible (according to NASA's ...
The "Golden Handle" appears each month when the sun illuminates a mountain range lining a vast impact crater. Saturday night ...
This Thursday we’ll have our first full moon of astronomical summer but for all practical purposes the moon will be pretty ...
The landscape is stark, dark and dramatic, formed by a series of eruptions in the last 16,000 years that have stacked layer ...
Save the world and get fabulously wealthy doing so. Someone really should make a movie out of that scenario, before it ...
When the Sun hits the rims of the Blanchinus, La Caille, and Purbach craters at just the right angles during the Moon's cycle ...
For about four hours, with the sun in just the right place, the moon's mountains and craters seem to spell out letters ...
At this time, the sun shines at such an angle to make it appear as if there is a gigantic 'V' and 'X' marking the barren ...
There might be more than $1 trillion worth of platinum deposits on the moon, according to a paper published in the journal ...
A picture of the moon’s south pole was taken in May by Resilience, a robotic lander operated by the Japanese company Ispace that probably crashed on the lunar surface Thursday. Some people see ...
I f you look up at the Moon tonight through binoculars or a small telescope, you may be able to see an unusual feature: a ...
The lunar X and lunar V will only be observable through a telescope or binoculars pointed at the Moon’s terminator – the line ...