European scientists are turning an aircraft into a laboratory that simulates lunar gravity to prepare astronauts and ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -An exhaustive examination of lunar gravity using data obtained by two NASA robotic spacecraft is offering new clues about why the two sides of the moon - the one perpetually ...

Earth's cosmic neighbourhood is more dynamic than imagined, hosting temporary 'mini-moons' captured by gravity and ...

Over 4.6 billion years ago, Earth took shape from a spinning cloud of dust and gas surrounding the young sun. Tiny particles within this cloud collided and clumped together, driven by gravity and ...

When the Moon first formed, it was a sea of molten lava. The immense gravity of Earth stretched this molten sea, raising tides on both the near and far sides. But the Moon was spinning, and that ...

The first crewed mission of the Artemis program won’t land on the moon, but it aims to take four astronauts farther from the ...

It is true that crewed missions to the moon are expensive, difficult, and dangerous. And we now have a long history going back decades of reliable, dependable, capable robotic exploration, including ...

Time only moves microseconds faster on the moon, so why would it need its own timezone? Learn how the moon's timezone plays a ...