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Get ready to cry wolf for the first full moon of 2026. The first full moon of the year falls on Jan. 3 this year, according to NASA. On this day, the near side of the moon is fully illuminated as it ...

The mystery of how Mars acquired its moons, Phobos and Deimos, may start to be unravelled in 2026 with the launch of a spacecraft that will eventually bring a chunk of Phobos back to Earth. “We are ...

The first full moon of 2026 will occur on Saturday, January 3. January's full moon is traditionally known as the Wolf Moon. The name comes from Native American and European traditions referencing ...

UAE Space Agency Emirates Mars Mission (EMM) Hope probe captured high-resolution image of Mars' moon Deimos. The spacecraft flew "as close as 100km (62 miles)" from the Martian moon. Credit: UAE Space ...

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said the U.S. will return to the moon within President Donald Trump's second term. Isaacman said that will be key to unlocking an "orbital economy," which could ...

Searching for clues on Phobos and Deimos. Mars has been studied and scrutinized more than any alien world. Since 1964, some 40 expeditions have been dispatched to the Red Planet. Orbiting spacecraft ...

ORLANDO, Fla. – A halo around the moon put on a show-stopping display Tuesday night. No, it wasn’t aliens but simply ice crystals making up the high, thin cirrus clouds drifting through the Central ...

If you know any bit of information about how the moon was created, new research indicates that everyone has believed wrong. As the story goes, 4.5 billion years ago, the moon was born as a result of a ...

New research suggests that Theia, the object whose collision with Earth is theorized to have caused the formation of the moon, came from closer to the sun. Artist’s impression of the collision between ...