As Earth's ever-present celestial companion, the moon exerts a constant influence on our planet, and its disappearance would ...

It'll be slightly smaller than a regular full moon, and noticeably smaller than a full moon at perigee (a supermoon). However ...

Light plays an important role in regulating our sleep/wake cycle, and our bodies are ultra-sensitive to it. As a result, the shine of a full moon can throw off your circadian rhythm, the system in our ...

Image caption, The difference between high and low tide is greatest when the Earth, the Sun and the Moon are in a line like this. Gravity from both the Sun and the Moon pull water across the Earth ...

The new images—of when the cosmos was a mere 380,000 years old—show the "first steps towards making the earliest stars and ...

Seleucus of Seleucia was an ancient astronomer who defended heliocentrism, arguing that Earth orbits the Sun and rotates on ...

In a new book release, two scientists combine forces to explain the discoveries, developments and theories made in the realm ...

One of the Holy Grails in cosmology is a look back at the earliest epochs of cosmic history. Unfortunately, the universe's ...

New images of the infant universe captured by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) are the most precise "baby pictures" to ...

New research by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) collaboration has produced the clearest images yet of the universe's ...