Learn more about tides and tidal bulge, and how they’re contributing to the moon drifting away.

The moon had a fluctuating orbit around the Earth, but recent changes in distance could be caused by the tidal force shifting the planet’s mass.

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Did you know there is a far side of the moon? Did you know we never see it? Next month, Ohio residents will have the opportunity to view the once-in-a-lifetime total solar eclipse on April 8. The moon ...

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Around 3.9 billion years ago a massive asteroid may have slammed into the moon with such force that it changed the satellite's rotation, according to a new analysis by a pair of astrophysicists. The ...

On May 31st, the asteroid 1998 QE2 passed within six million miles of Earth. A few weeks ago, we got a peek at some of the radar images of this unusual binary asteroid, and now additional radar images ...

Hi’iaka is the larger outer satellite of the dwarf planet Haumea. Using relative photometry from the Hubble Space Telescope and Magellan and a phase dispersion minimization analysis, we have ...