Because the Earth is doing the work of increasing the Moon's momentum, the Earth's rotation slows down in turn, as its ...

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 ...

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

The 2025 Solar Eclipse will occur on September 21. It will be a partial solar eclipse. Google has created a special surprise ...

On September 14, 2015, a signal arrived on Earth, carrying information about a pair of remote black holes that had spiraled ...

The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft's name has been changed to OSIRIS-APEX for its new mission to asteroid Apophis. See its journey to ...

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Solar activity has been on an overall decline since the ‘80s and scientists were expecting us to plunge into a historic low ...

Since its discovery, astronomers have been frantically trying to gather as much information as they can about the newest interstellar interloper dubbed 3I/ATLAS. It's been challenging, but they've ...

CALIFORNIA — The four-person civilian Fram2 mission returned home in a splash down off the coast of California on Friday after being the first humans to orbit Earth's polar regions. Riding in SpaceX’s ...