Over 4.6 billion years ago, Earth took shape from a spinning cloud of dust and gas surrounding the young sun. Tiny particles ...

Scientists say gravity as well as tidal forces are responsible for pushing the moon further away from our planet ...

However, the intense force and heat of the impact re-melted the proto ... Planetary scientists have calculated the distance between the Earth and the Moon backwards in time and found that the moon ...

Snapshot of 2023 DZ2’s orbit passing between Earth and Moon. Captured via NASA’s small-body database orbit viewer. Image source: NASA When this 210-foot asteroid completes its March flyby of ...

You just have to be in the right place at the right time. A solar eclipse occurs when the moon is positioned between Earth and the sun and casts a shadow over Earth. Solar eclipses only occur ...

This changes as the Moon orbits Earth, and Earth orbits around the Sun. When the moon is between Earth and the Sun, the illuminated part of the Moon is facing away from Earth so we cannot see it ...

Based on our current best understanding, the solar system formed from a primordial nebula -- a cloud of dust that coalesced ...