Moon

The space agency has asked Boston-based RR Auction to halt the sale of moon dust collected during the 1969 Apollo 11 mission that had subsequently been fed to cockroaches during an experiment to determine if the lunar rock contained any sort of pathogen that posed a threat to terrestrial life.

June 14 will be a strawberry super moon. What exactly is it and how can you see it?

The celestial action unfolded Sunday night into early Monday morning, with the moon bathed in the reflected red and orange hues of Earth’s sunsets and sunrises for about 1 1/2 hours

For the first time, scientists have grown plants in soil from the moon collected by NASA’s Apollo astronauts.

We have a big celestial event on Sunday night, so mark your calendar for the super flower blood moon eclipse. It’s a long name, but a few things are happening at the same time to give it this classification. And we’re watching the forecast to figure out if the clouds will let us see it. The lunar eclipse is...

The rare “super flower blood moon” occurs when the Earth is positioned directly between the moon and the sun.

No matter whose it is, scientists expect the object to carve out a hole 33 feet to 66 feet across and send moon dust flying hundreds of miles.

NASA reports up to 99.1% of the moon will be in the shadow of the Earth.

This modeled visualization of the moon’s orbit patterns over the course of a month shows the “moon wobble” as it makes its elliptical orbit.

Coastal cities across the U.S. are likely to see high-tide floods starting in the mid 2030s as rising sea levels align with a cyclical “wobble” in the moon’s orbit.

A “strawberry moon” will rise on Thursday, June 24th. Here’s what you need to know.

In the end, the buildup may have been more spectacular than the finale

If you’re reading this, you’re probably a little confused by the terms everyone is using to describe this month’s moon. Like everything, there’s rhyme to the reason … depending on the season. The month of May is known for its flowers, so Native Americans designated the term “flower” to denote this month’s moon. For the purists who claim that...

NBC L.A. Meteorologist Anthony Yanez explains all the details of Wednesday’s Super Blood Flower Moon

A unusually large full moon named after the pink phlox plant glowed overnight around the world.

China has launched an ambitious mission to bring back rocks and debris from the moon’s surface for the first time in more than 40 years — an undertaking that could boost human understanding of the moon and of the solar system more generally

Scientists say the moon’s shadowed, frigid nooks and crannies may hold frozen water in more places and in larger quantities than previously suspected

A supermoon rose above the sky on Tuesday. It was the first in a string of supermoons this year. The next supermoon will occur in May.

A visiting mini-moon is circling Earth, according to astronomers who discovered the cosmic squatter in our planet’s orbit.