Find out when the next full moon will light up the night sky. Discover its phases and mysteries with ExtremeTech’s guide.

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 ...

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 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 ...

The case for having a permanent base on the moon as a staging point for space exploration has been made many times over the years. Actually constructing a real lunar facility presents numerous ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

It might be easier for us to explore and live on the Moon than we previously thought ... in the 1970s – which landed close to ...

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 ...