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 ...

Jupiter is the king of moons. With 95 of them orbiting the gas giant, some are so large they rival planets in size. But what would it actually be like to live on one of these moons? Let’s imagine ...

Gravitational Interaction, Relativistic Precession, Planetary Ephemerides, Mercury Share and Cite: Bootello, J. (2025) Instantaneous Relativistic Precession of Mercury. Journal of Modern Physics, 16, ...

Imagine for a moment that Earth suddenly shrank to the size of the Moon, while the Moon expanded to the size of Earth. How would life on our planet change? Could humans survive this dramatic cosmic ...

According to a paper on the discovery, “In situ and remote observations of the ultraviolet footprint of the moon Callisto by the Juno spacecraft”, each of Jupiter's Galilean moons carves a small ...

CANYON, Texas (KAMR/KCIT) – NASA announced it is down to 25 finalists – including one from a local Canyon resident – for the design of the Artemis II zero gravity indicator, which will fly with the ...

The ESA's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE), which launched in April 2023, has completed another successful flyby aimed at boosting its speed ahead of a Jupiter orbital insertion sometime in 2031.

New research reveals that Jupiter’s birth triggered high-speed collisions that created molten droplets preserved in meteorites, tiny time capsules from the solar system’s earliest days.Credit: ...

Some urban legends claim that the phases of the moon can affect children's sleep patterns, but the research doesn't back up that claim Instead of blaming the moon for disruptions in your child's sleep ...

Mysterious spherical droplets in meteorites aren’t just cosmic oddities. They’re evidence of planetary formation.

During today's daily horoscope for August 27, 2025, the Sun is in Virgo. The Moon in the zodiac sign Libra squares Jupiter in Cancer, putting the surface and the soul deep in conversation. As these ...