Nearly 50 years since man first walked on the moon, the human race is once more pushing forward with attempts to land on the Earth's satellite. This year alone, China has landed a robotic spacecraft ...

A new hypothesis offers a resolution rooted in a process more normally associated with Jupiter’s volcanic moon Io: tidal ...

Venice's relationship with lunar cycles runs deeper than simple romance. The widest tide excursions usually occur at new and full moon periods, when gravitational forces align to create what ...

The near and far sides of the Moon exhibit significant hemispheric differences, with the farside possessing fewer large craters compared to the mare on the nearside. A 2-3% mass asymmetry between ...

The shape of the moon deviates from a simple sphere in ways that scientists have struggled to explain. A new study shows that most of the moon's overall shape can be explained by taking into account ...

A full moon is often mesmerizing, lighting up the sky and sometimes appearing so large, it’s as if you can reach out and touch it. In fact, when the moon seems so large and so close, that’s because it ...

The shape of the moon deviates from a simple sphere in ways that scientists have struggled to explain. A new study by researchers at UC Santa Cruz shows that most of the moon's overall shape can be ...