JF flew about 199,000 miles (320,000 km) away from Earth. It's estimated size is about 34 feet wide (10 meters), roughly the ...

So O'Donoghue made an animation to demonstrate what's going on. It shows how Earth and the moon will move over the next three years. The distance between Earth and the moon is not to scale in the ...

A new animation depicts that process with unprecedented ... In turn, Earth's tidal bulge exerts gravity on the moon. The Earth spins faster than the moon orbits it, so as the bulge rotates away ...

DW flew about 139,000 miles (224,000 km) away from Earth. The space rock was estimated to be about 43 feet wide (13 m).

The moon is constantly being bombarded by asteroids and nearly all of the impacts go unseen by us on Earth, but an incredible animation gives us a front row seat to what these cosmic events might ...

The weird motions of planet Earth and its sun will be a fun sight for future NASA astronauts standing on the south pole of the moon, if a new agency animation is any indication. NASA's Scientific ...

allowing scientists to create detailed maps of the moon’s surface. For the first time, these animations, created by NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio, allow people on Earth to see a ...

When Earth gets pummeled by meteors, so does the moon. And sporadic meteor encounters ... but he did make the above lunar-tail animation for the research team.) In the meantime, we'll have to ...