The crescent moon will be the centerpiece of April's final astronomical event as it bunches up with Venus, Saturn and Mercury ...

The moon is intimately familiar to most people simply because it's a constant in the night sky, but its interior is more of a ...

Moon is slowly moving away from Earth at a rate of 3.8 centimetres per year. This gradual drift affects Earth’s rotation and ...

Soil and rocks returned from the moon's far side suggest it may be drier than the side constantly facing Earth.

This discovery has big implications for Nasa’s Artemis program, which plans to establish a sustainable human presence at the Moon’s South Pole.

April’s pink “micromoon” will appear smaller than other full moons this year as it nears its farthest point from Earth in its ...

The once-dubbed "city-killer" asteroid 2024 YR4 has surprised scientists with its 'unusual' shape as it rapidly rotates ...

A pair of white dwarfs, located just 150 light-years from Earth, appears doomed to die in a type 1a supernova that will shine ...

However, it won't be long before this weekend's record is going to be broken. Almost every year in the next 12 years will ...

The micromoon, coinciding with the first full moon of spring, "The Pink Moon," will reach peak illumination at 8:22 p.m.

A micromoon’s reduced size is the result of the moon reaching its apogee, or its farthest point from Earth. The flip side of this phenomenon is a supermoon, which is when the moon reaches its perigee ...

“The moon’s orbit around the Earth is ... to the Earth and points when it’s farther from the Earth,” said Petro, who leads the science team of NASA’s Artemis III mission, aimed at ...