Astronomers have discovered what they think may be another moon orbiting a distant dwarf planet called Quaoar. This small, ...

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

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

(Related reading: The impacts that gave us the Moon may explain why Earth has life today) ...

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

The Moon likely formed from a giant impact with a sister planet, influencing Earth’s seasons and habitability.

Recent scientific research has unearthed an intriguing proposition that Earth may have once been orbited by two moons instead ...

Early Earth lacked life’s essentials until a collision with Theia added them. This chance event made life possible. After the ...

To answer a question or ask a new one, email [email protected] Between 50,000 and 100,000 tonnes of light gases such ...

Fresh from a spectacular “blood moon” total lunar eclipse and its full “corn moon” phase on Sunday, Sept. 7, 2025, a nearly ...

A rocky, Earth-size planet located in our Milky Way galaxy may have an atmosphere around it, according to new research, ...