As of Tuesday, Dec. 2, the moon phase is Waxing Gibbous. This means 91% of the moon is lit up tonight, according to NASA's Daily Moon Observation.

"During the early solar system's game of cosmic billiards, Earth was struck by a neighbor,” said Dauphas. “It was a lucky shot. Without the moon's steadying influence on our planet's tilt, the climate would have been far too chaotic for complex life to ever flourish."

Look to the southeastern horizon in the hours following sunset on Nov. 29 — you'll be able to see the moon shine close to the gas giant Saturn as Neptune lurks unseen nearby. The waxing gibbous moon will appear half-lit on the night of Nov.

Track the interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS, catch the peak of the spectacular 120-per-hour Geminid meteor shower (Dec 13/14), and see the Moon-Jupiter conjunction (Dec 7).

Billionaire private astronaut Jared Isaacman, President Donald Trump's pick to lead NASA, will tell senators on Wednesday that he wants to expand investments in nuclear propulsion and commercial efforts to help the U.

B REMEN, Germany — A German astronaut will be the first European to fly to the moon with a future NASA-led Artemis mission, the European Space Agency's (ESA) Director General Josef Aschbacher said at the ESA Ministerial Council, a high-level conference deciding the agency's budget and future direction, on Thursday, Nov. 27 in Bremen, Germany.

The government's been encouraging companies that help provide the public services in space to also develop commercial customers on the side,” said Harvard’s Matt Weinzierl.

Successful launches are helping Jeff Bezos’ company set up missions to ferry cargo—and eventually astronauts—to the lunar surface.