New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair of grand canyons ...

Scientists proposed an explanation for the formation of Vallis Schrödinger and Vallis Planck near the lunar south pole, which ...

The Earth's Grand Canyon took millions of years to carve, but the moon's grand canyons took about ten minutes.

Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket and spacecraft completed its moon-gravity mission, but the capsule appeared to have a slight ...

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On Nov. 14, 2024, the Institute of Biomedical Problems (IBMP) of the Russian Academy of Sciences marked the successful ...

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Despite predictions that the asteroid might become a temporary mini-moon whirling around Earth, the space rock maintained a horseshoe orbit that brought it close, but it never actually entered ...

However, the moon's orbit around Earth is tilted about 5 degrees relative to Earth's orbit around the Sun. This is why lunar eclipses don't occur every full moon—they only happen when the moon's ...

The first full moon of winter and 2025 — the Wolf Moon — will rise on Monday, but light up early evening skies on Tuesday as it rises in the east during dusk. As it does, it will be draped in ...