If the Moon were to suddenly vanish from the solar system, our home planet would suffer devastating consequences ...

There is no other moon quite like our own in the entire solar system. The Moon is unique in a lot of ways, some of which are ...

Easter is the most important festival in the Christian calendar and is celebrated by people all over the world. It marks the ...

The permanently shadowed regions of the Earth's Moon could shelter microbial lifeforms, according to new research.

The rare phenomenon will start on Sunday, March 23, at 12:04 p.m. EDT (9:34 pm in India) and extend for a few days.

Then, over millions of years, Saturn's rotation herded those moon or comet bits into the ... down to the fact that the gas giant is tilted on its axis by 26.7 degrees, similar to Earth's tilt ...

The Earth's axial rotation is perturbed by gravitational interactions with the moon and the more massive ... a 41,000 year cycle in the tilt of the Earth's axis (obliquity) and a 20,000-year ...

The Apollo astronauts were able to navigate to the moon because they had four sets ... resisting forces trying to tilt them. Gun makers take advantage of gyroscopic inertia by cutting grooves ...

Triton, the largest moon of Neptune, hosts ice volcanoes—geysers spewing ... The seventh planet, Uranus, rotates on an axis tilted by 98 degrees, essentially rolling on its side relative to its orbit.