Every year, the moon moves just a little farther away from our planet. Scientists have calculated the rate at which our ...

NASA shares the moon’s exact distance from Earth and its impact on ocean tides, solar eclipses, and space travel. See how ...

Have you ever wondered where Earth’s moon is from? One theory scientists have is that the moon formed about 4.5 billion years ago after a collision between two celestial bodies: early Earth and ...

Each phase left behind chemical fingerprints locked ... Competing ideas—like the moon splitting from Earth or forming elsewhere—don’t match the chemistry of lunar rock.

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory director Laurie Leshin discussed various outer space endeavors in an earth and planetary ...

May’s full moon is the third, and final, in a succession of this year’s micromoons, which occurs when Earth’s natural satellite is at its greatest distance from Earth and appears smaller ...