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

The Kuiper Belt is loosely defined as a doughnut-shaped swath of space beginning just beyond the orbit of Neptune and ...

"This is four times more people than saw Neil Armstrong walk on the moon. Think about what a world event this is going to be." ...

A n asteroid the size of a skyscraper is approaching Earth at a sprightly 24,136 miles per hour—and will be at its closest to ...

According to Dean Duffy, the new NASA administrator, a rock sample collected by the Perseverance rover was the "clearest sign ...

The gravitational force of the Moon does not act uniformly across the entire Earth; it is strongest at point A, which is the ...

Europa, Jupiter’s frozen moon, is one of the most promising places in the solar system to harbor life, with a vast hidden ...

The earliest astronomers were careful observers of patterns.

Today, let's talk about an incredibly mysterious celestial body in the solar system — Sedna. Did you know that it takes Sedna about 11,000 years to complete one orbit around the Sun? It leisurely ...