Recreating artificial solar eclipses in space could help astronomers decipher the inner workings of our sun much quicker than ...

The moon’s orbital plane is at a slight incline relative to the Earth’s, creating a so-called wobble effect. NASA tried to reassure the public: “There’s nothing new or dangerous about the ...

This July, skywatchers across Southern California are in for a remarkable sight as the crescent Moon and Mars converge in a ...

One might think that this should occur every month at Full Moon, but the Moon’s orbital plane is not exactly in line with the Earth’s plane around the Sun, so alignments occur less frequently.

The moon is tilted with respect to the Earth's orbital plane. (Image credit: NASA) The moon is Earth's nearest neighbor, but its origins date back to a violent birth billions of years ago.

These two facts mean that the Moon librates, or “wobbles” both left and right (an effect of its elliptical orbit) and up and down (an effect of the inclination of its orbital plane).

Saturn is a different matter, and confirms that if anything, we should expect the Moon’s orbit to be more tilted to our own orbital plane.

The robotic Luna-25 spacecraft appeared to have “ceased its existence” after a failed orbital adjustment, the space agency Roscosmos said.

Due to complex orbital mechanics, which are nicely explained in a recent paper the authors published on the pre-print server arXiv, a large enough moon could interact with the gravitational pull ...

Dr. Baresi said, “When the Sun is near the orbital plane of the Moon, we can experience total eclipses as long as 48 minutes, ...