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Moon phase today: What the Moon will look like on October 3, 2026

Mashable

Look Up Say More Top creators, ranked Gift Ideas For Everyone On Your List Mashable's Best: E-readers, robovacs, laptops, earbuds, smart home and more Creator Playbook Mashable Selects In My Bag AI at School Safety Net Versus Trending Now All Series Lois Mackenzie is a freelance reporter at Mashable. Over the years she has written for many publications, covering everything from the local news to the best pair of running shoes. You can find bylines in publications including Fit&Well, Metro, and Coach magazine, usually covering deals on everything from earbuds to TVs, or guides on how to beat your half marathon time. It's the Third Quarter phase of the lunar cycle tonight, which means we'll see roughly half of the Moon's surface lit up from Earth. It also means there's still plenty of its surface illuminated to be able to spot some of the Moon's craters and other surface features.


Moon phase today: What the Moon will look like on September 20, 2026

Mashable

Look Up Versus Say More Mashable's Best: E-readers, robovacs, laptops, earbuds, smart home and more Mashable Selects Creator Playbook In My Bag Trending Now Back to School Good Connection: Uplifting stories for a digital age Switch Off Mashable Voices All Series Lois Mackenzie is a freelance reporter at Mashable. Over the years she has written for many publications, covering everything from the local news to the best pair of running shoes. You can find bylines in publications including Fit&Well, Metro, and Coach magazine, usually covering deals on everything from earbuds to TVs, or guides on how to beat your half marathon time. There's still plenty to see on its surface in the meantime. What is today's Moon phase?


Moon phase today: What the Moon will look like on September 19, 2026

Mashable

Look Up Versus Say More Mashable's Best: E-readers, robovacs, laptops, earbuds, smart home and more Mashable Selects Creator Playbook In My Bag Trending Now Back to School Good Connection: Uplifting stories for a digital age Switch Off Mashable Voices All Series Lois Mackenzie is a freelance reporter at Mashable. Over the years she has written for many publications, covering everything from the local news to the best pair of running shoes. You can find bylines in publications including Fit&Well, Metro, and Coach magazine, usually covering deals on everything from earbuds to TVs, or guides on how to beat your half marathon time. The Moon is now more than half illuminated as it continues towards the Full Moon. With more of the lunar surface lit up each night, there's still plenty to spot, so keep reading to find out what you might be able to see.


A giant new moon crater is nothing next to its 4-mile bruise

Mashable

Say More Look Up Versus Mashable's Best: E-readers, robovacs, laptops, earbuds, smart home and more Mashable Selects Creator Playbook In My Bag Trending Now Back to School Good Connection: Uplifting stories for a digital age Switch Off Mashable Voices All Series And an Apollo 16 mystery solved. Elisha Sauers writes about space for Mashable, taking deep dives into NASA's moon and Mars missions, chatting up astronauts and history-making discoverers, and jetting above the clouds . Through 17 years of reporting, she's covered a variety of topics, including health, business, and government, with a penchant for public records requests. She previously worked for in Norfolk, Virginia, and in Annapolis, Maryland. Her work has earned numerous state awards, including the Virginia Press Association's top honor, Best in Show, and national recognition for narrative storytelling.


NASA and IBM made an AI model for exploring the Moon

Engadget

This past spring, the world experienced a rare moment of collective joy and awe when NASA's Artemis II mission, the first crewed flight to the Moon since 1972, completed its historic lunar flyby. On April 6, astronauts Reid Wiseman, Christina Koch, Victor Glover and Jeremy Hansen flew farther from Earth than any humans before them. Now, as NASA prepares for the next Artemis mission and beyond, the space agency is working with IBM to give scientists new tools to study the Moon. On Thursday, the two organizations released the NASA-IBM Lunar Foundation Model. As a foundation model, it can do a few different things, says Dr. Juan Bernabรฉ-Moreno, the director of IBM Research Europe, UK and Ireland.


Exploring the Moon will require rovers that can think for themselves โ€“ an upcoming NASA mission will test whether they can

Robohub

NASA is planning to send three small rovers to the Moon with a single instruction: Work out among yourselves how to explore a patch of ground. The Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration mission, or CADRE, will land on the side of the Moon facing Earth as part of NASA's IM-3 launch, planned for late 2026. These rovers will spend roughly two weeks mapping the terrain as a self-guided team. No joystick will control them, and no human will approve each turn. The rovers will elect a leader among themselves, assign their own tasks and redraw their plans as a group when one of them runs low on charge.


China's new moon mission could unlock secret of lunar ice: Why that matters

Al Jazeera

China's new moon mission could unlock secret of lunar ice: Why that matters China is set to launch its Chang'e-7 unmanned, robotic space mission, possibly as early as Monday morning, to look for ice water in the permanently shadowed craters of the moon's south pole. This marks China's seventh and most ambitious moon mission so far. Here is what we know about it. What do we know about Chang'e-7? The Chang'e 7 launch window runs from Monday, August 24 to Monday, August 31, according to launch observers.


NASA shares first images of SpaceX moon crash site

Popular Science

The Falcon 9 upper stage created a 60-foot-wide crater on the moon on August 5. More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. The crater image is enlarged three times from the original, with north facing up, and it covers an area about a quarter of a mile wide. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. By signing up, you confirm you are 16+, will receive newsletters and promotional content and agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge the data practices in our Privacy Policy .


The unexpected science hiding in Dante's 'Inferno'

Popular Science

The poem appears to have geophysics and geology that was not understood in medieval times. More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. "The Divine Comedy" is divided into the "Inferno," "Purgatorio," and "Paradiso." Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Dante Alighieri's is one of the most famous Italian literary works, if not most famous.


Deep learning framework for crater detection and identification on the Moon and Mars

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Impact craters are among the most prominent geomorphological features on planetary surfaces and are of substantial significance in planetary science research. Their spatial distribution and morphological characteristics provide critical information on planetary surface composition, geological history, and impact processes. In recent years, the rapid advancement of deep learning models has fostered significant interest in automated crater detection. In this paper, we apply advancements in deep learning models for impact crater detection and identification. We use novel models, including Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and variants such as YOLO and ResNet. We present a framework that features a two-stage approach where the first stage features crater identification using simple classic CNN, ResNet-50 and YOLO. In the second stage, our framework employs YOLO-based detection for crater localisation. Therefore, we detect and identify different types of craters and present a summary report with remote sensing data for a selected region. We consider selected regions for craters and identification from Mars and the Moon based on remote sensing data. Our results indicate that YOLO demonstrates the most balanced crater detection performance, while ResNet-50 excels in identifying large craters with high precision. Introduction The automatic detection of craters is a fundamental task in planetary science and has significant implications for geological analysis [1], spacecraft navigation [2], and planetary surface exploration [3]. The identification of craters is essential for spacecraft navigation, identifying hazardous terrains, and exploring planetary resources.