Earth's shadow follows the planet as it orbits the sun. You can get a sense of its enormous, awe-inspiring size by seeing ...

A US Senate committee has directed NASA to begin work on a moon base "as soon as is practicable." Under legislation advanced ...

The crescent moon is one of the most recognisable things in the night sky. At dusk or dawn, a lot of people have seen a thin, curved line of light in the sky. This shape is caused by the positions of ...

Scientists from Oxford University finally explain why some Moon rocks show intense ancient magnetism. Titanium-rich rocks caused brief bursts in the lunar magnetic field.

Not a difference in faith, but a matter of science—how the Moon's position and Earth's geography put Saudi Arabia a step ahead in sighting the Eid crescent.

As NASA gears up for the launch of Artemis 2, the agency is revising its moon landing strategy, aiming to make future missions more achievable and sustainable.

Without the Moon, researchers say Earth could experience far more extreme climate shifts, unstable seasons and dramatically weaker tides - fundamentally altering life on the planet.

In the U.S.- and China-led race to put astronauts back on the moon, there is, in fact, one overlapping goal: establishing a ...

When worlds collide…suns act squirrely. Astronomers have witnessed a rare and violent cosmic crash between two planets, and ...

Oxygen isotope analysis of lunar soil shows meteorites delivered only a limited amount of water to the Earth–Moon system ...

Researchers have uncovered more than a thousand previously unknown tectonic ridges across the Moon’s dark plains, showing the Moon is still contracting and reshaping itself. These features are among ...