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 ...

21, 2025 — Astronomers have discovered extremely powerful winds pummeling the equator of WASP-127b ... in the puzzle of the formation of the Moon and water on Earth. The prevailing theory ...

The phenomenon of a Full Moon arises when our planet, Earth, is precisely sandwiched between the Sun and the Moon. This alignment ensures the entire side of the Moon that faces us gleams under ...

The Moon is one of nature's wonders, but to photograph it successfully you first have to understand it. Although astrophotographers specializing in the Moon usually photograph it through a powerful ...

Now February heralds the arrival of a snow moon, the last full moon of the meteorological winter, bringing even more illumination. Although not a supermoon, it does come with a celestial partner ...

Dinosaurs may have first evolved close to the equator, not in the far south of the southern hemisphere as previously thought. A modelling study suggests they originated in a region that covers ...

One week ago, a private lunar lander left the ground on a nearly 7-week journey to reach the surface of the moon. The launch may not have had the headline-grabbing power of last year's historic ...