"The commonly quoted average distance of 384,400 kilometers, or 238,855 miles, is a good approximation," said Craig Hardgrove ...

The Moon, Williams and Zugger say, has an orbit around Earth that isn't as neatly aligned with the equator as you might ...

Their research indicates that terrestrial planets like Earth can gravitationally capture moons, a potential explanation for ...

Sept. 29, Earth captured a new "mini-moon" called 2024 PT5. The bus-size asteroid is expected to orbit our planet for 57 days ...

The facility has 900 tons of pulverized volcanic rock, akin to lunar soil, laid out over an area just bigger than a ...

It is widely believed that the moon formed during a collision between Earth and a small planet known as Theia.

NASA has announced plans to standardize the temporal readings for our lunar cousin by developing an official Coordinated ...

The tides we experience in all bodies of water on earth are caused by the gravitational pull of the Moon and Sun. At the Bay ...