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On Sunday, April 27, the Moon will be about 221,900 miles from Earth when it reaches perigee, the closest distance in its ...
Apparently, it’s moving further away from the Earth each year. At an annual rate of 3.82 centimeters, the moon's creeping ...
The story of William Anders' iconic Earthrise image, which helped to spur Earth Day and the environmental movement ...
Chinese researchers analyzed the first-ever soil samples returned from the far side of the moon, but further samples will be ...
The next supermoon is expected to reach its closest distance to Earth along its orbit. But even without clouds in the sky, it ...
Over 4.6 billion years ago, Earth took shape from a spinning cloud of dust and gas surrounding the young sun. Tiny particles ...
Furthermore, the findings bolster the theory that the moon formed when a giant, Mars -size protoplanet slammed into the young ...
Soil and rocks returned from the moon's far side suggest it may be drier than the side constantly facing Earth ...
A new image has emerged of the Red Planet rising above the lunar limb after being occulted by the moon in January.
A micromoon is set to occur Saturday as the full moon for April is set rise when the celestial body is at its farthest point ...
The micromoon refers to a full moon that rises when the celestial body is the farthest from Earth, which NASA states is about ...
The micromoon, coinciding with the first full moon of spring, "The Pink Moon," will reach peak illumination at 8:22 p.m.