What is the moon phase today? Today, Dec. 22, 2024, the moon is 20 days old, in the Waning Gibbous phase of its lunar cycle. It is 51% illuminated. Moon phases reveal the passage of time in the ...

The Sun reaches its southernmost point, the Ursid meteor shower peaks, and the Christmas Tree Cluster glitters in the sky ...

The Moon has long been the Earth's close companion, but researchers have struggled to understand exactly when the moon formed, because tiny crystals in the moon rocks brought home by astronauts ...

"There would have been volcanoes jetting off all over the place," he says. "It would have been very dramatic." The result would be a Moon that seemed younger than its true age. Astronomers have ...

"We think that the Moon went through a period when it looked like Io, and for the same reason," says Francis Nimmo, a planetary scientist with the University of California, Santa Cruz. "There would ...

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