The story of Earth’s atmospheric oxygenation is one of transformation, shaped by both biological and planetary forces. While ...

The Moon is tidally locked to Earth, meaning that its rotation speed around its own axis matches the time it takes to orbit around the Earth, and so the near side always faces Earth. The team ...

The Lunar New Year begins Jan. 29 in the Year of the Wood Snake. Here's everything you need you need to know about your ...

This means that one lunar rotation on its axis corresponds to the time of revolution around Earth, equal to 29.5 days. On a daily basis, the moon appears to move eastward in the sky by 12°, and ...

Ever since its formation around 4.5 billion years ago, Earth's rotation has been gradually slowing down, and its days have ...

The North and South Nodes just moved into Pisces and Virgo, kicking off a new eclipse series and a new spiritual growth ...

due to the moon's rotation. Only when the moon, Earth and the sun are perfectly aligned is the moon 100% full. And sometimes — once in a blue moon — the moon is full twice in a month (or four ...

Every 29.5 days, the moon goes through its full rotation, meaning that most months have a Full Moon and a New Moon for you to ...

NASA reports that the construction and operation of China's Three Gorges Dam have slightly slowed Earth's rotation by 0.06 microseconds. This effect is due to the redistribution of water mass ...

The images were captured using NASA’s Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC), a 4MP CCD camera and telescope on the DSCOVR satellite ...