The moon's ascending node (the point in the sky where its orbit crosses the ecliptic from south to north) is moving westward ...

John Wheeler is Chief Meteorologist for WDAY, a position he has had since May of 1985. Wheeler grew up in the South, in Louisiana and Alabama, and cites his family's move to the Midwest as important ...

The Earth's Grand Canyon took millions of years to carve, but the moon's grand canyons took about ten minutes.

Explore facts about this small but mighty celestial body. The Moon is a little over a quarter the size of the Earth, with a circumference of 10,917 kilometres around the equator and a radius (the ...

Skywatchers in central Florida and southern Texas can witness a rare lunar standstill on Feb. 7, as the waxing gibbous moon ...

It is not the bone-dry mass that scientists had thought it to be for generations, including when Armstrong first stepped foot near the moon’s equator in 1969. Rather, the moon is wet ...

A key argument supporting the new theory is the Moon's orbit, which is not aligned with Earth's equator. A Moon formed from a planetary collision would likely orbit above the planet's equator ...

It’s called the “Cold Moon” because it occurs during the beginning of winter, which began on December 21 with the solstice—the longest night of the year north of the equator. Full cold ...