Because the Earth is doing the work of increasing the Moon's momentum, the Earth's rotation slows down in turn, as its momentum goes to the Moon. To put it another way, as the Moon's orbital momentum ...

The humming air filters and softly blinking control panels of the International Space Station’s laboratory module formed the ...

Madison Blue Spring State Park in tiny Lee, Florida, is the kind of spot that makes you question whether you’ve accidentally stumbled through a portal to some fantasy realm where water doesn’t play by ...

Dinosaurs' extinction "re-engineered" Earth's surface, according to new research. The reptiles had such an "immense" impact ...

The long-standing idea of planets forming in perfectly flat, orderly discs has been challenged by new research. Instead of ...

A team of scientists has investigated how Earth’s twin became so inhospitable, and whether the same will happen to our planet ...

A planetary perspective on the relationship between life and energy, and the emergence of a life form whose influence extends ...

“The most likely trigger was an impact on a larger asteroid parent of Ryugu, which fractured the rock and melted buried ice, ...

So the bottom line is that the gravity of the closer tidal bulge on the Earth is pulling the Moon forward, which increases the size of the Moon’s orbit. This means that the Moon gets slightly farther ...

Changes in rock formations from before and after the mass extinction event 66 million years ago may reflect how dinosaurs ...

Dinosaurs had such an immense impact on Earth that their sudden extinction led to wide-scale changes in landscapes—including ...