Both NASA and Firefly Aerospace say Blue Ghost remains healthy as it prepares to make for lunar orbit sometime next month.

The Moon does not make its own light like a star. The Moon appears bright because it reflects light from the Sun. Like the Earth, half of the Moon faces towards the Sun, and half faces away from it.

Three supermoons will light up 2025's calendar, with the largest occurring on November 5. These events include the Hunter's Moon on October 7, the Beaver Moon on November 5, and the Cold Moon on ...

27 at 7:45 p.m. EDT (00:45 on Feb. 28). A new moon occurs when the moon is directly between Earth and the sun, with its shadowed side pointing towards us. You can see a new moon when it crosses ...

1 AU is the average distance between the Earth and the Sun and is approximately equal to 150,000,000 km (or 1.5 × 10 11 m). Distances between the Earth and other stars and galaxies are measured ...