Today, Oct. 9, 2025, the moon is 18 days old and is in the Waning Gibbous phase of its lunar cycle. It is 92% illuminated.

Learn how the Moon’s phases form, why it changes shape in the sky each night, and what each stage — from new moon to full moon — actually means.

The sky’s the limit? Not for Jeff Koons. There aren’t any galleries or museums on the moon (yet) but extraterrestrial dilettantes are in luck. If all goes to plan, there will soon be some contemporary ...

Ever wondered why the moon looks different tonight than it did last night? It's not random; the moon is actually moving through a cycle of eight phases known as the lunar cycle. T ...

The answer here is patience. Within a few days, the moon slips further along its orbit, and a tiny sliver of light appears. Knowing the cycle starts at “invisible” helps you track the rest more easily ...

Last week, the media lit up with news that a payload of 125 tiny Moon Phases sculptures by Jeff Koons had touched down aboard the Odysseus lunar lander. I was going to write something on it—but then a ...

The space brewing equipment jointly developed by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) and DASSAI Inc., a sake company ...

Moon phases reveal the passage of time in the night sky. Some nights when we look up at the moon, it is full and bright; sometimes it is just a sliver of silvery light. These changes in appearance are ...