Find out when the next full Moon will light up the night sky. Discover its phases and mysteries with ExtremeTech’s guide.

Over millennia, our view of the stars has shifted, because of Earth’s wobble. It may be time to rethink your sign.

Most of us know our zodiac sign—but what if we told you it might be 2,000 years out of date? Because of Earth’s slow wobble, ...

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's gravity causes high and low tides, something known as the tidal force. As the tidal force shifts Earth's mass, it ...

This hasn't always been the case. If we take the current rate of recession and project it backwards, the Moon collides with ...

NASA's Lunar Orbiter 1 captured the first photograph of Earth from lunar orbit on 23 August 1966, in an unplanned decision that produced one of space exploration's most iconic images. The spacecraft ...

Astronomers using the powerful eye of the James Webb Space Telescope have spotted a previously unknown moon whirling around Uranus, according to NASA. The discovery boosts the number of moons known to ...

An image of a full moon. - Photo by Omer Tarsuslu/Anadolu via Getty Images The moon is out of sight tonight, which can only mean we're on day zero of the lunar cycle. The lunar cycle is a series of ...

Two weeks ago, it was holographic cops. This week, it’s humanoid robot doctors. Or is it? We’re pretty sure it’s not, as MediBot, supposedly a $10,000 medical robot from Tesla, ...

This week in Skywatch, I want to go back to basics when it comes to the moon. So why does the moon change shape? Why is it a crescent on one night, a half-moon another night, and a full moon on yet ...

The moon is getting less and less visible each night, and it won't be long before we see nothing at all. The moon is looking a little darker right now due to where we are in the lunar cycle, a series ...