June is one of my favorite months and a perfect season to get out for some stargazing. This week, however, the moon will be arcing across our early ...

Saturn's moon Titan has an atmosphere that spins with a tilt completely separate from the moon's surface rotation.

The solar system's largest moon, Ganymede, which orbits the largest planet, Jupiter, was hit by an asteroid four billion years ago that shifted the gas giant's satellite on its axis, new research ...

Its eccentric orbit around our planet is thought ... But the Earth spins on its axis much faster than the Moon orbits above, meaning friction from the ocean basins moving beneath also acts to ...

It also takes the same amount of time for the moon to make one full rotation on its axis. This coincidence is why Earthlings always see the same lunar side. Prior to space exploration, many ...