The gravitational interaction between the Earth and Moon has led to one hemisphere of the Moon being locked facing away from ...

Normally, we don't think of the north and south pole of a planet as something subject to change. New research, however, suggests that the poles of the moon were once displaced by massive amounts of ...

Latitude plays an important role because the moon's axis is oriented in such a way that sunlight just grazes over the lunar poles. The lunar topography at the poles is populated by non-eroding craters ...

New research reveals the Moon's colossal South Pole-Aitken basin was formed by an asteroid striking from the north, not the ...

At 4 PM EDT, the Moon passed 4° north of Saturn, followed by a passage 3° north of Neptune at 6 PM EDT. Saturn (magnitude 0.6), visible to the naked eye, and Neptune (magnitude 7.7), requiring optical ...

Astronomers identified asteroid 2025 PN7 as a quasi-moon of Earth in 2025, a rare celestial companion sharing Earth's solar ...