Now, scientists think they know exactly which lunar crater it ... at a rapid clip of one rotation every 28 minutes. The asteroid orbits the sun in a similar path to Earth, sometimes approaching ...

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

"This object has helped the community to realize that lunar ejecta is probably a ... with some completing a full rotation ...

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

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

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 researchers found — which is in the same ballpark as the amount the Moon's pull slows the Earth's rotation over the same period. Subscribe to our daily newsletter to keep in touch with the ...

But water also sloshes around, just as it does within in aquarium, and the position of the coasts and the Coriolis effect (caused by Earth's rotation) also affect where and to what extent tides ...

And in the process, Earth's rotation is actually slowing down ... On land, animals like these Red Crabs also use lunar cues to reproduce. After living most of their lives in the mountains ...

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

A lunar day means the time taken by the moon to complete one rotation on its own axis. The moon is tidally locked to the earth. This means one side of the moon is always facing the earth.