The Moon drifts 3.82 cm away from Earth each year, silently stretching our days and threatening future planetary wobble, ...

Moon is slowly moving away from Earth at a rate of 3.8 centimetres per year. This gradual drift affects Earth’s rotation and ...

YR4 won't hit Earth, but scientists now estimate a 4% chance it could strike the Moon, possibly affecting space missions.

A team behind the rescue of two lunar satellites left stranded by a launch anomaly have revealed the challenges they faced in ...

Current research favors its rapid rotation with a rotational period ... The asteroid's composition also matches the lunar samples brought to Earth by both the Apollo and Luna missions, further ...

Today, April 17, 2025, the moon is 19 days old and is in the Waning Gibbous phase of its lunar cycle. It is 83% illuminated. Moon phase Date First Quarter April 4 Full Moon April 12 Third/Last ...

The world is hungry for renewable sources of energy, which has led some scientists to ask the question: what about the rotation of the Earth? A new study reports that researchers have successfully ...

The far side of the moon—seen here, captured by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter ... satellite is much drier than the side that faces Earth, according to a new analysis.

The asteroid is shaped like a hockey puck and is about the size of a football field in diameter which is about 60m.

In the field of space exploration and asteroid monitoring, some discoveries raise more eyebrows than others– and asteroid ...

IMAGINE your home was powered by the dirt in your back garden. Well, that could be a reality for future lunar astronauts. Scientists have discovered a way to use Moon dust to build solar power ...

There's less water in the mantle beneath the farside of the moon than in the mantle on the nearside, according to studies of the precious lunar samples brought back to Earth by China's Chang'e 6 ...