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2026 full moon calendar: When to see the full moon and phases

The phenomenon of a Full Moon arises when our planet, Earth, is precisely sandwiched between the Sun and the Moon. This ...

The Blue Moon Is Back, and It’s Micro

A celestial rarity known as a blue micromoon will grace the night sky this weekend. It arises from the coinciding of two lunar effects. When there are two full moons in a single c ...
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America is going back to the moon. Here’s why it’s a big deal

Four NASA astronauts are set for a historic journey around the back side of the moon when they launch to the heavens from Florida Wednesday evening and mark man’s return to the lunar area for the ...
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Artemis II: America’s headed back to the moon — and then beyond!

People set cameras to photograph NASA's Artemis II mission to orbit the moon, with the next-generation moon rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and the Orion crew capsule, on Pad 39B at the ...
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‘Moon joy!’ Artemis 2’s crew sets a distance record, documents lunar far side and heads back toward Earth

Four astronauts today became the first humans to make a trip around the moon since the Apollo era — and added new pages to history books for the Artemis era. The Artemis 2 crew reached a maximum ...