Because the Earth is doing the work of increasing the Moon's momentum, the Earth's rotation slows down in turn, as its ...

The 2025 Solar Eclipse will occur on September 21. It will be a partial solar eclipse. Google has created a special surprise ...

Tides come from a difference in gravity across an object. The force of gravity exerted by the Moon is about 4% stronger on the side of Earth that faces toward the Moon, compared to the opposite side ...

If you’ve ever felt like you need more hours in the day, well how does 60 sound? A new study suggests we’d have 60-hour days by now if a stalemate between the Sun and Moon hadn’t interfered with Earth ...

Later this month, the earth will briefly gain a new moon. An asteroid called 2024 PT5 will be making a horseshoe-shaped partial orbit around Earth before it breaks free of our planet's gravitational ...

This story originally aired in March 2024. Every other Friday, the Outside/In team answers a listener question about the natural world. This week we’re answering some pretty imaginative questions ...

A Dec. 28, 2023, Facebook post (direct link, archive link) claims humanity's basic understanding of the solar system is flawed. "They say the sun is 400 times larger than the moon and that it only ...

If you didn't catch the " blood moon " Sept. 7-8 from your backyard in the United States, there's a perfectly good ...

The NOAA GOES-18 and GOES-19 satellites saw a solar eclipse as the moon blocked out the sun mere hours before a lunar eclipse ...

Caitlin O'Kane is a New York City journalist who works on the CBS News social media team as a senior manager of content and production. She writes about a variety of topics and produces "The Uplift," ...