Earth’s satellite and the Red Planet offer a picturesque view amid the stars of Virgo for a few hours after sunset tonight.

The crescent moon will be visible 20 degrees above the western horizon at sunset on July 28, with Mars appearing as a bright point of light roughly four degrees to its upper right. Both Mars and the stars of the nearby constellation Virgo will grow more prominent as the glow of the setting sun gives way to the coming night.

Multiple moon landings, conducted over several decades, produced a remarkably similar pattern of dust on the lunar surface. The recurrence of this pattern, created by rockets firing during touchdown,

Firefly Aerospace said on Tuesday it has secured a $176.7 million NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services contract to deliver five NASA payloads to the Moon's South Pole in 2029, marking another step toward expanding private sector participation in U.

The sturgeon moon is set to light up Michigan skies in early August 2025, as the Perseid meteor shower peaks. Here's what to know.

As of Tuesday, July 29, the moon phase is Waxing Crescent. There's 23% of the moon's surface visible to us on Earth (according to NASA's Daily Moon Observation ).

"Up to 10% of the lunar ejecta could reach Earth within days," said Paul Wiegert, a planetary scientist and lead author of the study. "The resulting meteor shower could be eye-catching, with meteor rate orders of magnitude above usual background rates."

Cedar Park-based Firefly Aerospace announced Monday that it has priced its initial public offering and is hoping to raise at least $557 million.