The most significant forces come from the Moon and the Sun. The Moon's gravitational pull on Earth is the primary cause of tides, but the Sun also plays a role, albeit to a lesser extent.

Winds are still going to be out of the south, with Wednesday's winds being from the southwest. This may cause the tides to be lower than predicted, which is usual ...

Now, researchers using data from a NASA moon probe report something startling in the journal Science: 290 million years ago, the rate of impacts on the moon—and thus, Earth —increased ...

Since Kepler's laws of motion dictate that celestial bodies orbit more slowly when farther from the sun, we are now moving at ...

New moon: The moon is between Earth and the sun, and the side of the moon facing toward us receives no direct sunlight; it is lit only by dim sunlight reflected from Earth.

At aphelion, Earth’s distance from the sun is about 94.5 million miles. Six months later, at the start of January in the winter, Earth is at its closest point to the sun at 91.5 million miles.

Webb's initial observations in March saw the odds of YR4 crashing into the moon rising from the 1.7% figure calculated in February to 3.8%, according to NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object ...

The 2024 YR4 asteroid, which once registered a possibility of hitting Earth, now has a 4.3% chance of hitting the moon in 2032. The latest observations utilized NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope.