The moon changes each night, well, from our perspective it does anyway. This is because of the lunar cycle, a recurring ...

#2. The Moon came from Earth. It didn’t form beside our planet, and Earth’s gravity didn’t capture it. The latest theory says ...

What is today’s moon phase? As of Friday, June 20, the moon phase is Waning Crescent. In this phase, the moon is only 31% visible to us on Earth, according to NASA. This moon ma ...

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With Diviner now able to date craters larger than 6.2 miles across, Mazrouei set to work. Mapping a billion years’ worth of craters on the moon by hand over the next five years, she quips that ...

Across the Moon's nearly 20-year-long cycle, our lunar companion follows a unique, tilted orbit around Earth. As a result, it has events called major and minor lunar standstills, when the Moon ...

Across the Moon's nearly 20-year-long cycle, our lunar companion follows a unique, tilted orbit around Earth. As a result, it has events called major and minor lunar standstills, when the Moon ...

These icy bodies, which range from 293 to 980 miles (472 to 1,578 kilometers) wide, are all "tidally locked" to Uranus, meaning that the same half of the moon always faces the planet, similar to ...

When the Sun hits the rims of the Blanchinus, La Caille, and Purbach craters at just the right angles during the Moon's cycle ...