The phenomenon of a Full Moon arises when our planet, Earth, is precisely sandwiched between the Sun and the Moon. This alignment ensures the entire side of the Moon that faces us gleams under ...

As the 3:17 p.m. ET deadline to land on the moon came and went, mission control center (MCC) members tried to establish communications with the HAKUTO-R lunar lander named RESILIENCE.

The HAKUTO-R Mission 2 has been traveling to the moon while performing various maneuvers and conducting tests before its big day of landing on the lunar surface on Thursday, June 5, at 3:34 p.m. ET.

Scientists typically break the moon's 29.5-day cycle into 8 phases, determined by the relative positions of the moon, Earth and sun. The "new moon" begins the cycle when the moon is exactly ...