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

Last year, a pair of researchers claimed that the shockwaves of the shutdown could be felt as far as the moon, causing a ...

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

The moon revolves around Earth in an orbit relatively close to the plane of Earth's equator, so the nearer to the equator one is, the higher the moon appears in the sky. Near the equator ...

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 ...

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 ...

With daylight slipping away, September’s skies make an excellent background for watching stars and planets. Venus shines ...

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 ...

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