There is no other moon quite like our own in the entire solar system. The Moon is unique in a lot of ways, some of which are ...

Competing ideas—like the moon splitting from Earth or forming elsewhere ... the moon could reveal unique chemical signatures and geological histories, enhancing our understanding of its ...

Originally, the hypothesis was that Theia gave the Earth a glancing blow, and the proto-Earth and Theia lost pieces ending up as one or two moons that eventually formed the Moon. It was thought that a ...

Earth Is Safe From Menacing Asteroid—but Our Moon Might Take the Hit The Moon, however, is still not safe from the flying space rock. NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies recently ...

Scientists have long noted differences between the lunar near side and far side. While the near side periodically passes ...

The phenomenon happens when the moon is at a point farthest away from Earth, about 251,000 miles away according to NASA. It's opposite to a supermoon, where the moon swings closer to Earth and ...

A micromoon occurs when the full moon coincides with the moon's farthest point from Earth, known as apogee. On April 12, 2024, the moon will reach a maximum distance of approximately 252,277 miles ...

The problem is that our Earth is too noisy, making it nearly impossible to capture this whisper. The solution is to go to the far side of the Moon, using its bulk to shield our sensitive ...

The achievement was disclosed at a symposium on Earth-moon space DRO exploration in Beijing on Tuesday. DRO is a unique type of orbit, and the Earth-moon space refers to the region extending ...