Life on Earth took a long evolutionary journey that eventually created us, the purportedly intelligent species that dominates ...

Every time I see the moon in the sky, it makes me happy. Our natural satellite is so familiar it’s easy to take it for ...

Earth is slowing down, but don't reset your watch yet. See how the Moon and climate change are slowly stretching the day to ...

The moon over America's first Independence Day was about 31 feet closer to Earth than it is today. Here's how colonists used ...

Without the Moon, Earth’s geology, biology, and climate — as well as human philosophy — would be different in many significant ways. If Earth had no Moon, the postulated origin of the Moon through a ...

You can probably conjure this vision of the moon—hold the image in your mind and transmit it off this planet and onto our shining opalescent companion. Peaks in the sun? I’ve seen that. This week, we ...

The Sun has had a five-billion-year sentence hanging over Earth, but a new study suggests that it might never be carried out.

The phenomenon of a Full Moon arises when our planet, Earth, is precisely sandwiched between the Sun and the Moon. This ...