The fall equinox is a significant event in any tipped planet's life. Seasons are caused by a planet's tilted axis. Those which orbit the sun standing nearly straight up and down with little to no ...

The Earth stands alone in the solar system as a habitable world, as far as we know. But that doesn’t mean we don’t get visitors, most often in the form of (usually harmless) asteroids. Some even ...

Earth has a new friend — and it's been waiting for us to notice it for decades. In a new study published in the journal ...

A distant exoplanet might have an atmosphere similar to Earth's, early observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST ...

As of Thursday, Sept. 18, the moon phase is Waning Crescent, and it is 11% lit up to us on Earth, according to NASA's Daily ...

The moon had a fluctuating orbit around the Earth, but recent changes in distance could be caused by the tidal force shifting the planet’s mass.

Due to the influence the Earth plays on the moon’s momentum, the Earth’s rotation slows down in response, as explained by DiKerby. However, given that this is such a minor change in distance annually, ...

The Soviet Union’s successful Zond-5 space mission in 1968 prompted NASA to speed up the Apollo program—ultimately driving it ...

The Moon is getting 1½ inches (3.8 centimeters) farther away from the Earth every year. Scientists measure the distance to the Moon by bouncing lasers off mirrors placed there by space probes and ...

So the bottom line is that the gravity of the closer tidal bulge on the Earth is pulling the Moon forward, which increases ...

Tides come from a difference in gravity across an object. The force of gravity exerted by the Moon is about 4% stronger on the side of Earth that faces toward the Moon, compared to the opposite side ...