This phenomenon, known as lunar recession, is caused by the complex gravitational relationship between Earth, our tides and the Moon. The same game of cosmic tug-of-war affects us, too – our planet’s ...

It sounds like a sci-fi plot, but it’s a cold, hard scientific fact: our closest cosmic neighbor, the moon, is slowly moving farther from Earth. Is this a big deal? And if so, how does it affect life ...

Early Tuesday morning, March 3, a total eclipse of the Moon will be visible from throughout the U.S. (and North and America). In a lunar eclipse, the Moon and the Sun are exactly opposite each other ...

When you think of moons orbiting around celestial bodies, the first that naturally springs to mind is Earth's own moon. Certainly, that moon is ours – it is firmly locked within orbit around our ...