The case for having a permanent base on the moon as a staging point for space exploration has been made many times over the ...

Museum planetary science researcher Prof Sara Russell explains the origins of Earth's closest companion. 'There used to be a number of theories about how the Moon was made and it was one of the aims ...

spent two weeks operating on the moon’s near-side. The landing site was close to an ancient volcanic feature called Mons Latreille, which lies just north of the equator. Blue Ghost basked in ...

The moon will be 47 degrees high in the northeast ... the two planets are next to each other with Saturn on the right. Near the Equator, in cities such as Quito or Singapore, Venus is higher ...

While you may think that a larger lens would be able to produce fire with moonlight as it can collect more light, or focus it ...

Skywatchers across North America are in for a treat as the moon prepares to undergo a stunning transformation during a total lunar eclipse, commonly known as a blood moon. This remarkable phenomenon ...

UW-Milwaukee's Manfred Olson Planetarium's April show "Stars in the Tropics" takes stargazers to different cities near the ...

The moon does not orbit the Earth in a perfectly flat plane around our planet’s equator. Rather, its orbit is slightly cockeyed, tilted at an angle of 5.145 degrees. That means that sometimes ...

The spring equinox will occur at 5:01 a.m. EDT on Thursday. Here's what to know about the start of the spring season.

Here are the dates for the full moons in 2025. The next full moon will be on Saturday, April 12. It will officially reach its full moon phase at 8:22 p.m. EDT (0022 GMT April 13), but local ...

When teachers explain ocean tides, they frequently describe how the moon's gravity pulls on Earth and all of its water. This, they often say, leads to a gravitational imbalance, which stretches ...