The Earth and moon are within view of NASA's Artemis 1 Orion spacecraft. The Earth is over 260,000 miles away (418,000 km) in ...

High above the Sun’s blazing equator lie its mysterious poles, the birthplace of fast solar winds and the heart of its magnetic heartbeat. For decades, scientists have struggled to see these regions, ...

The annual creep of the king tide could keep coastal streets wet through Oct. 10, even as the month's full harvest moon loosens its grip on Earth. Palm Beach County has been under coastal flood alerts ...

A new listing of the 50 most concerning pieces of space debris in low-Earth orbit is dominated by relics more than a quarter-century old, primarily dead rockets left to hurtle through space at the end ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a 4% chance of colliding with Earth’s moon in 2032 Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her work as a writer/editor has previously appeared in places like ...

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A king tide is a non-scientific term used to describe exceptionally high tides. Higher than normal tides typically occur during a new or full moon when the moon is at its closest position to Earth.

Florida's surrounding waters are on the move! A low-pressure system over the Gulf and its stationary front stretching across Florida are churning the Gulf waters, making them hazardous for boaters and ...

October’s full moon is a supermoon, treating Californians to a dazzling view in which the moon will appear especially large and bright. This month's moon is known as the Harvest moon (but this name ...

Get ready to see Lee Sun Bin undergo a meaningful transformation on the next episode of “To the Moon”! Based on the novel of the same name, MBC’s “To the Moon” tells the story of three women from ...

WASHINGTON, Sept 30 (Reuters) - The moon is sometimes called "two-faced" because the surface of its side perpetually facing away from Earth looks so different than its side always facing our planet.

In 2020, scientists reported the detection of hematite, an iron oxide mineral otherwise known as rust, distributed through the higher latitudes of the moon, particularly on the nearside. This came as ...