The moon's ascending node (the point in the sky where its orbit crosses the ecliptic from south to north) is moving westward ...

The phases of the moon are a consequence of its motion around Earth in relation to the geometry assumed with respect to the sun. To better understand how it works, let us, first of all ...

Wednesday’s launch kicked off the company’s second attempt to send one of its Hakuto-R spacecraft to the moon. Ispace is a company that aims to sell its services to space agencies or private ...

Despite what frequent Venice visitor Galileo Galilei thought, tides are indeed related to the motion of the moon (and to a lesser extent, the sun).* Two oceanic bulges—one on the side of the ...

Our planet's Moon might look dead and stagnant from our vantage point here on Earth, but a new study suggests it was moving ...

“That time of closest approach to Earth, or perigee, happens three or four times each year due to the motions of Earth and the moon around the sun.” The November full moon is known as the ...

Thanks to the parallax effect, the Moon's relative motion in its orbit around Earth appears significantly faster than the movement of Mars in its orbit around the Sun. There are undoubtedly ...

The next and first full moon of the year, also known as the Wolf Moon, will be in peak view on Monday. January's full moon will reach peak illumination at 5:27 p.m. ET on Monday, according to NASA.