Astronomers may, for the first time, be confirming an exomoon in our universe, much like our moon, but outside our solar ...
The final supermoon of the year, known as the Cold Moon, will appear in Thursday night. This full moon will definitely be the ...
In addition to being the third consecutive supermoon of the year, as reported by EarthSky, it will be about 357,000 km away from us, making it the second-closest full Moon of the year. Consequently it ...
December’s full moon will reach peak brightness on Thursday, but it will look striking for the next few nights—especially ...
Conventionally, the moon is thought to have formed during one big impact, but a three-impact model might make more sense ...
E veryone knows Earth has one moon. That big, bright object in the night sky is the Moon with a capital M. But astronomers ...
Apollo samples provide evidence: Researchers analyzed Moon rocks brought back by the Apollo missions and, for the first time, ...
Little is known about the long-destroyed moon-forming planet, Theia. But it may have been born in the inner solar system—just like Earth—a new study suggests ...
The Moon is getting 1½ inches (3.8 centimeters) farther away from the Earth every year. Scientists measure the distance to ...
The Artemis II astronauts will be eating meals aboard the Orion spacecraft for 10 days as they fly around the moon.
The outer planets of the Solar System are swarmed by ice-wrapped moons. Some of these, such as Saturn’s moon Enceladus, are ...
Theia, the world that helped form the Moon, came from the Solar System. Chemical clues in Earth and Moon rocks reveal this close origin.