After 50 years designing sports performance eyewear for athletes on Earth, Oakley has made its first steps into optical ...

"It is incredible that modern telescopic surveys have the ability to detect such small objects up to millions of kilometers ...

The planet’s rotation fluctuates as it travels around the sun, and measurements suggest we’re losing more than a millisecond during the long days of summer.

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 ...

The moon, Earth and sun will be briefly aligned on April 8, causing a total solar eclipse.

The total solar eclipse over North America this April is a great opportunity for kids to understand the dance of the Earth, sun and moon ...

But from the surface of Earth, we have just one Moon — likely formed from an ancient, giant impact — and it just so happens to be practically identical in angular size to the Sun.

Since the moon is Earth’s closest celestial neighbor, we’ve been able to learn more about it than any other in the solar system. There are surprising details about the moon, such as how in ...

The Moon has the most effect on the tides, but it’s not the only factor that affects them. The Sun and the Earth can also affect the tides. We’ll start with the Moon. Read more: ...

Here's how to share the rare Super Blue Blood Moon eclipse of Jan. 31 with your kids and teach them about the moon's phases.

For now, our anomalously large Moon is spinning away from us at a variable rate of 3.8 centimeters per year. But, in fact, the Earth and Moon may be on a very long-term collision course --- one ...

Everyone knows the moon orbits the Earth and that the Earth orbits the Sun. But what about the path of the moon around the Sun? What does that look like? I will go ahead and state that this is a ...