The moon's orbit isn't a perfect circle. Instead, it's more stretched out, kind of like an oval, which means its distance from Earth varies by about 30,000 miles (48,000 km). The surface of the moon ...

March’s “worm moon” sets behind Rocca Calascio castle and village in L’Aquila, Italy. Photograph by Lorenzo Di Cola, NurPhoto/Getty Images Earth’s moon phases cycle from month to month, waning and ...

The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite, formed approximately 4.5 billion years ago from debris ejected after a massive impact with Earth. Despite appearing the same size as the Sun from Earth, ...

Could Artemis III astronauts collect some lunar samples that shed light on the moon's mysterious past? That's what a team of ...

We may have been wrong about how the Moon's largest crater, the South Pole-Aitken basin, formed roughly 4.3 billion years ago ...

When is the next supermoon? The next supermoon will be on Wednesday, Nov. 5. It will officially reach its full moon phase at ...

A team at the NASA has discovered a new moon orbiting Uranus, and this one is even smaller than the others. A team led by the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) discovered the moon on Feb. 2. They ...

GREENVILLE, S.C. (FOX Carolina) - The month of June brought many sights and oddities from the cosmos to Upstate. From the strawberry moon, to being able to view multiple planets, and even a meteor in ...

The last solar eclipse of 2025 takes place today, September 21. Students can learn 10 key facts about the eclipse, its timing ...

The moon is our constant companion and the only natural object that always orbits Earth. It's about four times smaller than Earth and its gravity is much weaker, which is why astronauts bounce around ...