An image of a full moon. - Photo by Omer Tarsuslu/Anadolu via Getty Images It's a new moon phase tonight, and it's day 22 of the lunar cycle, a series of eight unique phases of the moon's visibility.

With binoculars, it is also possible to see the Alphonsus Crater, the Apennine Mountains, and the Archimedes Crater. And if you have a telescope, you'll also see the Apollo 11 landing spots, Caucasus ...

Crater Alphonsus dominates the right half of this Ranger 9 photograph on the cover of the April 5, 1965 issue of the magazine. Its floor marked by high crater density and an intricate pattern of ...

On March 24, 1965, a nationwide TV audience watched live video from Ranger 9 as it purposefully crashed into the Moon within ...

Ever since Soviet Astronomer Nikolai A. Kozyrev reported that he had seen a volcano-like eruption on the moon early in November, non-Russian astronomers have been waiting to see his evidence. Last ...

Ever wonder why the moon looks different every night? Well, that's because of a thing called the lunar cycle. This is a recurring series of eight unique phases of the moon's visibility. The whole ...

The year was 1969 when the Apollo 11 mission buzzed the lunar surface and humans stepped out on the silent world of the Moon. However, Apollo 11 was not the first to arrive on the scene. Long before ...

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