"Circumbinary orbits that are polar or highly inclined to the Earth-Moon orbit are subject to two competing effects: nodal precession about the Earth-Moon eccentricity vector and Kozai-Lidov ...

Furthermore, the findings bolster the theory that the moon formed when a giant, Mars -size protoplanet slammed into the young ...

New Webb Telescope data confirms that asteroid 2024 YR4 poses no threat to Earth during its 2032 flyby. As for the Moon, not so much.

Although the rocks that record the earliest parts of Earth’s history have been destroyed or deformed over time by more than four billion years of geology, scientists can use modern rocks, moon samples ...

Most of the earth’s wobbling is a grand motion that makes its axis describe a 23° cone once every 26,000 years. This precession is caused by the pull of the sun and the moon acting on the ...

No lunar glow, no "Man in the Moon" – just an endless, dark sky. If Earth's companion of 4.5 billion-years suddenly vanished without a trace, what would happen to our home planet? Article ...

Soil and rocks returned from the moon's far side suggest it may be drier than the side constantly facing Earth ...

The moon turns red only during a total lunar eclipse, when the sun, Earth and moon align in a nearly straight line and the moon is fully in Earth’s shadow. The resulting red-hued moon—which is ...

Advertisement Advertisement As the moon orbits the Earth and the Earth orbits the sun, the three bodies are forever getting in one another’s way, periodically blocking the view from one to the ...