Higher-than-normal (and lower-than-normal tides) are headed back to San Diego's coasts this weekend, according to NBC 7 ...

China conducted its 55th orbital launch of 2024, sending the Haiyang-4 (01) oceanography satellite into a near polar orbit. A Long March 4B rocket lifted off at 5:42 p.m. Eastern Nov.

NEW YORK -- Volcanoes were erupting on the mysterious far side of the moon billions of years ago just like on the side that ...

The first lunar samples from the moon’s far side differ in some interesting ways from those collected from the near side, ...

For nearly 40 years, scientists have generally agreed that Earth's Moon formed from debris after a massive collision with our ...

It may be part of the night sky we look up at each night, but the moon's origins remain a mystery that has left scientists ...

The first series of King Tides is November 15 to 17. Upcoming winter King Tides will take place December 13 to 15, and ...

The four primary phases of the moon (new moon, first quarter, full moon, last quarter) occur about a week apart, with the full moon its most dazzling stage. Tariq is the Editor-in-Chief of Space ...

The phenomenon of a Full Moon arises when our planet, Earth, is precisely sandwiched between the Sun and the Moon. This alignment ensures the entire side of the Moon that faces us gleams under ...

The 2020 mini-moon was eventually identified as a rocket booster from the 1966 Surveyor 2 Centaur launch. But ATLAS reports this new mini-moon is likely to be a real asteroid, which is simply ...

By Emma G. FitzsimmonsGrace Ashford and Winnie Hu The fire, in Inwood Hill Park at the northern tip of Manhattan, followed brush fires that burned in Brooklyn, the Bronx and New Jersey over the ...

The Shellowship of the Ring: Two New Snail Species Named After Tolkien Characters Nov. 11, 2024 — Researchers have named two newly discovered freshwater snail species from Brazil after ...