Over 4.6 billion years ago, Earth took shape from a spinning cloud of dust and gas surrounding the young sun. Tiny particles ...

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

If the Moon were not gravitationally coupled and showed different faces to Earth, as other natural satellites do to their planets, lunar observation would be quite different. Instead of seeing just ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Easter 2025 is this Sunday, April 20. That’s super late. It feels odd to have Easter so late, right? Why isn’t it on the same ...

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