The Apollo missions changed how scientists understand the moon. Returning with Artemis could help solve some of the biggest ...

The Moon is not a fixed lantern in the sky but a slow-moving partner that is gradually edging away from Earth. That retreat is tiny on human timescales, yet over millions and billions of years it ...

The Moon is gradually drifting away from Earth at a rate you could measure with a ruler if you waited long enough, and this isn’t some random cosmic accident. The process is driven by the same tidal ...

Researchers have uncovered more than a thousand previously unknown tectonic ridges across the Moon’s dark plains, showing the ...

Like pipes, statues and nails, the moon can rust. Such rusting has occurred despite a seeming lack of necessary components — but all signs of blame point to the Earth. A new study posits that the ...

Lunar-based measurements reveal Earth’s outgoing radiation is dominated by low-order spherical harmonics, providing unified global data for climate and environmental studies ...

The total lunar eclipse occurs around the March full moon phase, as the sun, Earth and lunar disk align.

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