The full moon of March takes ... (March 5), when the Red Planet approached within 62.6 million miles (100.7 million kilometers) of Earth. The milestone occurs once every 26 months, which is ...

The Moon is not only beautiful ... at a rate of 19 hours every 4.5bn years. The length of a day, or in other words the rotation speed of the planet, plays a big part in its stability.

Bigger than the planet Mercury, Ganymede is the largest moon in the Solar System, and the only one known to currently have its own magnetic field. Although Juno was designed to study Jupiter ...

“It almost seems like a magical thing,” said one of the astronomers involved in studying the lunar phenomenon. By Robin George Andrews Carl Sagan once said that Earth is but a “mote of dust ...

but the new paper argues that a sodium cloud whizzing around it does not come from the planet. It might be created by a hypervolcanic companion moon spewing 220,000 pounds of the material every ...

The days, a new Proceedings of the National Academy of Science study states, are getting longer because the Earth is spinning more slowly every year. The moon is ... day on this planet was only ...