The Moon is back in its waning phase.

I hope you enjoyed the full moon on Friday night to kick off May. It’s considered by many cultures as the Flower Moon for obvious reasons. We’re not done with full moons this month, though, as there’ll be another on May 31.

The phenomenon of a Full Moon arises when our planet, Earth, is precisely sandwiched between the Sun and the Moon. This alignment ensures the entire side of the Moon that faces us gleams under sunlight.

Friday’s full moon, known as the “flower moon,” will mark a rare moment in the skies for more than one reason. Not only is the full moon one of two for the month of May, leaving room for a “blue moon” later this month,

Astronomers say the upper stage of a Falcon 9 rocket that launched in early 2025 will strike the Moon later this summer, likely on the near side of the Moon. Bill Gray, who writes the widely used Project Pluto software to track near-Earth objects,

NASA's Moon program deadlines keep slipping, highlighting persistent issues — and enormous technical hurdles. During his first term in late 2017, president Donald Trump announced that the United States would make its historic return to the surface of the Moon.

The world now knows, courtesy of the NASA Artemis crew, that the moon is far more colorful than earthlings imagined, and in May it will turn completely blue, at least figuratively. The month will be bookended by instants of lunar fullness at 1:23 p.

The Eta Aquarid meteor shower soon will light the sky with debris from Halley's comet. The shower will peak Tuesday night into Wednesday morning. Viewers from the Southern Hemisphere typically see 50 meteors per hour during the peak,