The moon, seemingly serene, is gradually shrinking, causing surface cracks and moonquakes, posing potential challenges for ...

Over 4.6 billion years ago, Earth took shape from a spinning cloud of dust and gas surrounding the young sun. Tiny particles within this cloud collided and clumped together, driven by gravity and ...

Tom Howarth is a Newsweek reporter based in Bristol, U.K. His focus is reporting on nature and science. He covers climate change, biodiversity, extreme weather, zoonotic diseases and more. Tom joined ...

The Earth’s Moon had a rough start in life. Formed from a chunk of the Earth that was lopped off during a planetary collision, it spent its early years covered by a roiling global ocean of molten ...

The moon's orbit isn't a perfect circle. Instead, it's more stretched out, kind of like an oval, which means its distance from Earth varies by about 30,000 miles (48,000 km). The surface of the moon ...

For the first time, astronomers have found a disk around a Jupiter-like planet outside of our solar system -- the kind of disk where moons could actively be forming. The disk, known as a ...

September’s full moon will be accompanied by a total lunar eclipse that will be visible to much of the world. Here’s how to ...

To understand the "blood moon", we must first discuss the total lunar eclipse.

Another time, another place A recent discovery from the Spitzer Space Telescope may yield new insight into the origin of our own Moon. Although this discovery was in the news some time ago, the advent ...

Stargazers will have an opportunity to see an almost full moon gliding close to Saturn today, forming a pleasant conjunction ...