and 3 on a clock, respectively. (For those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, the moon travels in a counterclockwise orbit.) Each of these primary moon phases marks a quarter of the lunar cycle and ...

What do you get when you combine hundreds of kilos of spare steel, a ratty 20-year-old Yamaha R6, and almost 750 hours of hair-brained brilliance? The answer is the world’s fastest penny ...

The clock is ticking on humanity. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has moved its Doomsday Clock forward for 2025, announcing that it is now set to 89 seconds to midnight –— the closest it ...

The Doodle, called “The Rise of the Half Moon,” is part of an interactive game series. In this game, you connect the phases of the lunar cycle to earn points. You play against the computer, or the ...

Today, Feb. 13, 2025, the moon is 15 days old and is in the Full Moon phase of its lunar cycle. It is 99% illuminated. Moon phases reveal the passage of time in the night sky. Some nights when we ...

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Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost moon lander caught haunting images of Earth while preparing to make its way towards lunar orbit. Blue Ghost launched on the "Ghost Riders in the Sky" mission on Jan ...

Is it too early on a Tuesday to have an existential crisis? The Doomsday Clock doesn’t believe so. On Tuesday morning, the Doomsday Clock was set at 89 seconds to midnight, which is the closest ...

The world moved yet closer to global catastrophe in 2024, with the hands of the Doomsday Clock ticking one second closer to midnight, the shortest time to zero hour in its 75-year history.

Each year for the past 78 years, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has published a new Doomsday Clock, suggesting just how close – or far – humanity is to destroying itself. The next ...

Seventy-eight years ago, scientists created a unique sort of timepiece — named the Doomsday Clock — as a symbolic attempt to gauge how close humanity is to destroying the world. On Tuesday ...

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists shifted the hands of the symbolic clock to 89 seconds to midnight, citing the threat of climate change, nuclear war and the misuse of artificial intelligence.