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

Scientists say gravity as well as tidal forces are responsible for pushing the moon further away from our planet ...

Today, April 10, 2025, the moon is 12 days old and is in the Waxing Gibbous phase of its lunar cycle. It is 94% illuminated. Moon phase Date First Quarter April 4 Full Moon April 12 Third/Last ...

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

The Cedar Park-based aerospace company responsible for successfully landing on the moon last month was awarded a new ...

Cedar Park-based Firefly’s Elytra spacecraft will serve as a space maneuver vehicle, performing tasks and hosting government ...

Earth's satellite is 380,000 kilometers ... Due to its period of axial rotation and other factors, day and night on the lunar surface each last about two weeks. Temperatures can reach 110 degrees ...

The first samples returned from the far side of the Moon suggest it's 10-100 times drier than the side nearer Earth.

For nearly two centuries, scientists have wondered if Earth’s rotation through its magnetic field could produce electricity. The idea was first tested by Michael Faraday in 1832, but his ...

The cylinder was placed in a pitch black, windowless laboratory to minimize photoelectric interference, and angled in such a way as to make it perpendicular to both Earth's rotation and magnetic field ...

The nodes gradually rotate around the Earth, and they complete a full rotation in 6,793 days ... so solar and lunar eclipses are often in pairs. Often, but not always, because the alignment ...