How to watch the rare streak of 3 supermoons happening back-to-back

Look up this fall and you’ll notice something unusual: every full moon will appear bigger and brighter than usual. That’s ...
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Why the Moon looks different each night — a complete explanation of lunar phases and their cycle

Learn how the Moon’s phases form, why it changes shape in the sky each night, and what each stage — from new moon to full moon — actually means.

Scientists Find a Chilling Divide Between the Moon’s Two Faces

Scientists have discovered that the far side of the Moon is colder deep within its interior than the side that always faces ...

Four back-to-back Supermoons to close out 2025, start 2026: When to watch

October's full Harvest Supermoon is the first of four consecutive full moons in a row: three in 2025 and one in January of ...
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The moon is getting slightly farther away from the Earth each year — a physicist explains why

Scientists measure the distance to the Moon by bouncing lasers off mirrors placed there by space probes and astronauts.
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Oct. 7, 1959: The first photos of the Moon's farside are taken.

On Oct. 4, 1959, exactly two years after the launch of Sputnik, the Soviet Union scored another win when Luna 3 launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and set off for the Moon. It was the ...