Fall equinox 2025 arrives on Monday, September 22. Find out why the first day of autumn still features a little more daylight ...

Learn more about tides and tidal bulge, and how they’re contributing to the moon drifting away.

When the biggest geomagnetic storm in 20 years hit Earth in May 2024, photographer Kavan Chay was in Tumbledown Bay, New ...

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

Long ago, the Moon was much nearer Earth. Scientists believe a protoplanet collision created the Moon 4.5 billion years ago.

So, on a scale of 1-10, with 1 being “nobody suits at all at the position; it needs a complete rework” and 10 being “as set as you could imagine, literally stacked to the moon”, how would you rate the ...

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

It’s as if an invisible hand meticulously arranged the moon's rotation to deliberately conceal its far side from our view on ...

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

The nights surrounding Aug. 29 are a great time to spot the stars of the famous 'Summer Triangle' asterism, bisected by the ...

This point is located on the extended line outside the Moon in the Earth-Moon system, where the gravitational forces of the Earth and the Moon reach a dynamic equilibrium with the centripetal force ...