Discover interesting facts about how the moon formed, what it's made out of, and the many missions humans have launched to ...

March’s “worm moon” sets behind Rocca Calascio castle and village in L’Aquila, Italy. Photograph by Lorenzo Di Cola, NurPhoto/Getty Images Earth’s moon phases cycle from month to month, waning and ...

The December full moon is on the rise - and it's an interesting one. The December full moon is on Dec. 15 this year. According to The Farmer's Almanac it will be 100% illuminated on Dec. 15, 4:02 a.m.

(CNN) — Here’s a look at the first moon landing on July 20, 1969. The moon landing was watched by an estimated 600 million people around the world. July 20, 1969 – [4:17 p.m. EDT] Apollo 11 becomes ...

The moon's orbit isn't a perfect circle. Instead, it's more stretched out, kind of like an oval, which means its distance from Earth varies by about 30,000 miles (48,000 km). The surface of the moon ...