As of Wednesday, Jan. 7, the moon phase is Waning Gibbous. According to NASA's Daily Moon Guide, 80% of the moon will be lit ...

A new study reveals that tiny fragments of Earth's atmosphere are transported to and absorbed by the moon via gusts of solar ...

As of Wednesday, Dec. 31, the moon phase is Waxing Gibbous. According to NASA's Daily Moon Observation, 88% of the moon will ...

The moon is one of the most familiar sights in the night sky, but it does not look the same from every corner of the planet.

The Moon is not a fixed lantern in the sky but a slow-moving partner that is gradually edging away from Earth. That retreat is tiny on human timescales, yet over millions and billions of years it ...

Popocatépetl emerged in the crater of other volcanoes in its current form more than 20,000 years ago and has been active ...

Americans do not need to travel internationally to see the Northern Lights. Factors like light pollution, moon brightness, and geomagnetic activity affect visibility. Many top viewing locations are ...

When the moon's light passes through ice crystals in high-level cirrus clouds, that light gets bent. It gets bent at a ...

New research suggests that Theia, the object whose collision with Earth is theorized to have caused the formation of the moon, came from closer to the sun. Artist’s impression of the collision between ...

Astronomers recently detected a stray quasi-moon in our planet’s orbit, but it's hardly the first stowaway to hang out around Earth. Unlike the Earth's moon, quasi-moons are not gravitationally bound ...

A massive, well-preserved impact crater has been uncovered in Guangdong, revealing the signature of a powerful meteorite strike during the Holocene. Measuring 900 meters across, it dwarfs other known ...

"The most convincing scenario is that most of the building blocks of Earth and Theia originated in the inner solar system. Earth and Theia are likely to have been neighbors." When you purchase through ...