The shower forms from the debris of an asteroid and peaks this weekend. But a nearly full moon could interfere with viewing.

With the Moon's terminator moving almost 10 mph (16 km/h) across its equator, how long would it take for an observer using ...

NASA’s Apollo missions landed at six sites relatively near the moon’s equator between 1969 and 1972, while the Chang’e-5 spacecraft landed in the moon’s northwest corner. The Chang’e-6 ...

Explore facts about this small but mighty celestial body. The Moon is a little over a quarter the size of the Earth, with a circumference of 10,917 kilometres around the equator and a radius (the ...

Dr Barber explained that Slim landed near the Moon's equator, where the lunar surface reaches more than 100C at noon, but then plunges to -130C during the lunar night. Jaxa said that communication ...

It’s called the “Cold Moon” because it occurs during the beginning of winter, which began on December 21 with the solstice—the longest night of the year north of the equator. Full cold ...