Because the Moon is over a quarter the diameter of Earth, the Earth-Moon system is often cited as the pairing in our Solar ...

There are two types of eclipses - a lunar eclipse, when Earth's shadow obscures the moon and a solar eclipse, which takes place when the Moon blocks the sun from view, according to NASA.

Even though these particular lunar craters aren't visible from your backyard, Kring says there are similar, but smaller canyons on the near side of the moon that's visible in the night sky. These ...

Scientists proposed an explanation for the formation of Vallis Schrödinger and Vallis Planck near the lunar south pole, which ...

As the next full moon prepares to rise on February 12th, whispers of its mysterious influence on the winter weather of Earth ...

The moon may still be geologically active, judging from the way the lunar far side is wrinkling as the moon contracts. At ...

So, every day is getting just a touch bit longer. In 1900, a day was exactly 24 hours in length, but an analysis of ...

The next Sputnik Moment will take place against the backdrop of great power competition, as it did in the 1950s. This time, ...

Exciting February sky events include Venus at its brightest and closest to Earth, the moon occulting the Pleiades, and a ...

New research suggests the Moon still lives and that it isn't just a hunk of dead, cooled molten rock like scientists used to ...

Researchers found young ridges on the moon’s far side, proving it is still geologically active. The ridges formed in last 200 ...

It was Johann Kepler, almost exactly 400 years ago, who declared that each planet speeds up as it approaches the Sun in its elliptical orbit, but travels more and more slowly as it heads away. So ...