Why being first to return to the moon matters. In late 1957, the US Navy's Vanguard rocket was primed to launch the world's first artificial satellite. But, on the morning of Oct. 4, the Soviet ...

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What is the moon phase today? Today, Feb. 9, 2025, the moon is 11 days old, in the Waxing Gibbous phase of its lunar cycle. It is 91% illuminated. Moon phases reveal the passage of time in the ...

In a phenomenon called the occultation of Mars, the moon will pass directly in front of the red planet, temporarily hiding it from view for observers across large swaths of the Earth. Here's ...

This is because Earth's shadow fully covers the moon, and the sunlight travels through Earth's atmosphere, scattering shorter wavelengths of light while letting the longer red wavelengths reach ...

It was "a crazy, maybe idiotic, but at the same time, in my mind, really poetic thought to put a red house with white corners on the surface of the moon," Genberg said in a video posted on Facebook.

On Monday night you may have a chance to witness the moon obscuring the Red Planet at its brightest, as well as a comet’s closest approach to the sun. By Katrina Miller The first full moon of ...

when the Earth’s shadow causes the moon to appear red. This shadow gave the moon a ghostly appearance, and it seemed all red and brown in colour. In 2025, the Blood moon is expected to rise on ...

We all know that the Moon is made of Swiss cheese – but you might mistake it for Red Leicester in a couple of months. Lowly Earthlings are about to get their first chance this year of seeing a ...

And, while those wolves are howling, the moon will also cover Mars. But the red planet will literally have its moment in the sun and shine as brightly later in the week. Mars will be hidden during ...