Learn more about tides and tidal bulge, and how they’re contributing to the moon drifting away.

The moon had a fluctuating orbit around the Earth, but recent changes in distance could be caused by the tidal force shifting the planet’s mass.

The NASA Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP), along with secondary payloads, launched aboard a Falcon 9 on ...

Recent scientific research has unearthed an intriguing proposition that Earth may have once been orbited by two moons instead of one. This radical idea not only challenges our understanding of the ...

BEIJING, September 7. /TASS/. China has successfully launched the third group of remote sensing satellites Yaogan-40 into orbit, according to the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation ...

Scientists measure the distance to the Moon by bouncing lasers off mirrors placed there by space probes and astronauts.

A GIANT asteroid that risks crashing into the Moon could be nuked before it makes impact. Scientists are looking into the ...

TREASURE could be lurking just out of sight on the Moon – just waiting to be extracted. That’s the idea put forward by scientists who say our lunar neighbour could be hiding a vast resource ...

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Artemis III is planned for 2027. If it stays on schedule, it will be the mission that puts humans back on the moon for the first time in 55 years. The crew plans to touch down in one of 13 planned ...

NASA announced a launch date for first crewed flight to the moon since 1972. The Artemis II mission will circle the moon but ...

China appears to have pulled off not only the first satellite-to-satellite refuelling in geosynchronous orbit, but also the “largest single manoeuvre” ever seen in that orbit, according to a former US ...