As mankind was planning the first moon landing in the 1960s, an asteroid approached Earth—and still hasn’t left.

Without other planets or the Moon, Earth would lose tides, gravity stability, and the conditions necessary for life.

Most animals, including humans, carry an internal lunar clock, tuned to the 29.5-day rhythm of the Moon. It guides sleep, ...

It sounds like a sci-fi plot, but it’s a cold, hard scientific fact: our closest cosmic neighbor, the moon, is slowly moving ...

Brazilian researchers have developed a technique that estimates the force exerted on each grain of sand in a dune from images ...

A new study reveals that the largest lunar crater, South Pole-Aitken basin, was formed by an oblique impact that shaped the ...

Contrary to online rumors, Earth still only has one true moon, but astronomers have discovered a so-called 'quasi-moon.' Here ...

Archival data revealed that the object has been in an Earth-like orbit for around six decades. Some 4 million kilometers (2.5 ...

NASA just confirmed that a quasi-moon has been orbiting since 1960. Here is everything to know about what is being called a "second moon." ...

It turns out the moon does more than move the tides — it may also influence one of the ocean’s top predators. Scientists have found that shark behavior changes with lunar phases, from feeding patterns ...

A spectacular supermoon rose over New Jersey skies on Monday, Oct. 6th, with peak visibility across the Northern Hemisphere ...

A new scientific theory on solar tide effects has dramatically improved the accuracy of calculating how much faster clocks ...