Today, June 26, 2025, the moon is 1 days old and is in the New Moon phase of its lunar cycle. It is 1% illuminated.

The dark skies during a new moon provide ideal conditions for spotting skywatching targets that would otherwise be outshined by moonlight.

To help inspire your little future scientists and astronauts, we've launched a fun new Earth Moon Sun paper craft to keep ...

Learn the differences between our Earth, the Sun and the Moon. Then explore how together they create day and night and our different seasons with their orbits.

Fact check: Flat Earth claim based on gas pressure fails to account for gravity's impact. Researchers have confirmed the sun and moon's actual sizes and positions in space through various ...

Let's say we want to build a model of the sun and Earth alone. Earth has a radius of about 6,371 kilometers (3,959 miles), but let's represent this with a marble 1 centimeter in diameter.

Tidal Forces. The moon holds the primary influence over Earth’s tides due to its proximity, but it’s not the only factor. The sun, with a mass about 27 million times that of the Moon, also ...

The moon is expected to turn an eerie blood-red above the skies of the U.S. in the coming months, due to a rare total lunar eclipse. Late on March 13 and in the early hours of March 14 this year ...

Full Moon: A Full Moon occurs when the Moon and Sun are positioned on opposite sides of Earth. This causes the entire face of the Moon to be illuminated by sunlight.

Over 4.6 billion years ago, Earth took shape from a spinning cloud of dust and gas surrounding the young sun. ... providing insights into how the Earth-moon system evolved.

An asteroid called 2020 CD3 was bound to Earth for several years before leaving the planet's orbit in 2020 and another called 2022 NX1 became a mini-moon of Earth in 1981 and 2022 and will return ...