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

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 ...

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 ...

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

The asteroid is no longer considered a significant threat to Earth - but new calculations suggest a notable chance of a lunar impact.

The potential collision of YR4 with the Moon may lead to the formation of new meteoroids, as the collision may create a large ...

First image from Lunar surface: Eight months after Lunar Orbiter had taken the first photo of Earth from lunar orbit, Surveyor 3 On April 30, 1967, took the first-ever picture of Earth from the ...