The Moon, our constant celestial companion, is drifting away from Earth at a slow but measurable rate. According to a ...

So the bottom line is that the gravity of the closer tidal bulge on the Earth is pulling the Moon forward, which increases ...

As it spins around Earth, the moon is about to reach its closest point to the blue planet.

For more than sixty years, a tiny asteroid has been moving in step with Earth, hidden from view until recently. Astronomers ...

Aside from 2025 PN7, there are 7 other quasi-moons, according to the Planetary Society, which they refer to as “a gravitational sleight of hand.” From our terrestrial point of view, they may appear to ...

Long ago, the Moon was much nearer Earth. Scientists believe a protoplanet collision created the Moon 4.5 billion years ago.

Due to the influence the Earth plays on the moon’s momentum, the Earth’s rotation slows down in response, as explained by DiKerby. However, given that this is such a minor change in distance annually, ...

A near-Earth asteroid lurked undetected for decades until a telescope in Hawaii spotted it earlier this year. It may be Earth ...

At its nearest, 2025 PN7 comes 186,000 miles (299,337 kilometres) from Earth. Its average distance is about 238,855 miles ...

A new study has revealed that the Earth’s celestial companion, the Moon, is moving away from the Earth at the rate of 1.5 ...

A cryogenics company called Bluefors needs ten thousand liters of helium-3 from the Moon to be delivered each year from 2028 ...

Experiments on Earth indicate some common species of bacteria and fungi could survive for several days on the moon's surface, ...