The Earth formed over 4.6 billion years ago out of a mixture of dust and gas around the young sun. It grew larger thanks to countless collisions between dust particles, asteroids, and other growing ...

Look at how the Earth's tilt changes how much sunlight the northern hemisphere receives. The Moon is always a sphere but you may have seen different shapes of Moon in the sky. These are called the ...

An asteroid large enough to destroy a city has passed between the orbits of the Earth and the Moon - luckily for us, missing both. The object, named 2023 DZ2, was discovered a month ago.

In December 2024, a rare celestial event known as the Black Moon will occur, marking the second new moon in a single month.

The Moon has long been the Earth's close companion, but researchers have struggled to understand exactly when the moon formed, because tiny crystals in the moon rocks brought home by astronauts ...

29 at 7:36 a.m. EDT (1236 GMT). A new moon occurs when the moon is directly between Earth and the sun, with its shadowed side pointing towards us. You can see a new moon when it crosses the face ...

The Moon is gradually drifting away from Earth at a rate of 3.82 centimetres per year. This phenomenon is a result of the gravitational interactions between the two celestial bodies. As the Moon ...