Every so often, Jupiter's strong gravity sends an asteroid hurtling through the solar system, sometimes towards Earth. Last ...
About 4.6 billion years ago, our corner of space was basically just a boring cloud of gas and dust floating […] ...
Every year, the moon, Earth's reliable celestial companion for 4.5 billion years, is getting 1.5 inches away. The distance to ...
It's the reliable celestial companion that's stuck around for 4.5 billion years. But the moon is slowly drifting away from ...
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 ...