While it has been established that water exists on the Moon, pinpointing its precise locations presents a formidable ...

Researchers studying decades of earthquake data say they have found the first evidence that, in addition to spinning backward ...

They found that the inner core once spun faster than Earth itself. But beginning around 2010, the solid inner core’s spin slowed. It’s now revolving ... the size of the moon, with a radius ...

The Blue Ghost lunar lander, built by the Texas-based company Firefly Aerospace for NASA, launched to space on Jan. 15, and ...

For a brief, but exciting, time last year, Earth had two moons. A small asteroid lingered close to our planet in its orbit ...

Skywatchers on Thursday evening, Feb. 6, will notice an eye-catching pairing-off between two of the brightest objects in the ...

I recently saw a YouTube video by Hank Green discussing how important the Galilean moons are in our understanding of the solar system and the universe as a whole. The ...

The Snow Moon rose on Feb. 12, 2025, marking the end of Chinese New Year and setting up both the beginning of Ramadan and a ...

The moon's ascending node (the point in the sky where its orbit crosses the ecliptic from south to north) is moving westward ...

Before arriving at the moon, the small satellite mission will use the gravity of the sun, Earth, and moon over several months ...

Last year, a pair of researchers claimed that the shockwaves of the shutdown could be felt as far as the moon, causing a ...