Over 4.6 billion years ago, the early Earth emerged from a swirling disk of gas and dust encircling the young sun. This ...

A renewed rivalry between the United States and China in space exploration has placed special focus on Lagrange points.

"The temperature just wildly swings from extremely hot to extremely cold," John Monnier, a professor of astronomy at the ...

Earth spins as it orbits the Sun, and the solar system is orbiting the galactic center. So, if I go outside and look up, in ...

29 at 7:36 a.m. EDT (1236 GMT). A new moon occurs when the moon is directly between Earth and the sun, with its shadowed side pointing towards us. You can see a new moon when it crosses the face ...

Our rocky satellite's real age is concealed by a "remelting" event that caused its surface to liquify, distorting the story ...

Planets that form very close to their sun would be extremely hot ... Application to Close-in Exoplanets and the Early Earth-Moon System, arXiv (2024). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2412.07285 ...