Every year, the moon moves just a little farther away from our planet. Scientists have calculated the rate at which our ...

Titan, the largest moon of Saturn, is truly a remarkable world. It has a thick atmosphere as well as rivers, lakes, and seas ...

The dark side of the moon may be the most misnamed place in all of the solar system, in fact, by some accounts, the nearside ...

NASA’s learned a lot about the Moon since Apollo. But a perfect landing still requires incredible planning and scientific ...

Researchers have found that the thick and hazy atmosphere enveloping Saturn's largest moon, Titan, behaves in a very peculiar ...

The puzzling behavior of Titan's atmosphere has been revealed. The team has shown that the thick, hazy atmosphere of Saturn's largest moon doesn't spin in line with its surface, but instead wobbles ...

Jumping back in time, Thuban was positioned as a North Star some 4,700 years ago, as early civilizations thrived in ...

The moon will rise with Venus and the ice giant Neptune in the pre-dawn sky on Thursday, May 22.

(But it's not how long it takes Earth to rotate on its axis, period: that actually happens ... Why the discrepancy? Thanks to the moon’s incrementally increasing distance, Earth days are slowly ...

The Planet Earth and Moon in Orbit 42179 set measures 9" high ... the Earth rotates on its axis, (2) the sun rotates on its axis, (3) the moon orbits the Earth, and (4) the Earth orbits the ...

Earth’s rotation is slowing, and 25-hour days may be our future. Lunar drag and planetary shifts are stretching time—forcing ...