All planetary systems have this point, called a barycenter, where their mass is perfectly balanced. For some systems - like Pluto and its moon, Charon - the barycenter is outside the planet. See more ...
The moon may be a familiar sight in the night sky – but because it's tidally locked to Earth, there is one side of the lunar surface we never see. This side was a mystery for centuries. It wasn't ...
The moon is constantly being bombarded by asteroids and nearly all of the impacts go unseen by us on Earth, but an incredible animation gives us a front row seat to what these cosmic events might ...
Get your scrolling hand ready. An interactive web page has created a scale model of the solar system, where the moon is the size of just one pixel. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she ...
The diameter of the moon is said to be 3474.8 km comparable to the distance from New York to Las Vegas, but if this is expressed in one pixel, the size of the sun will be as follows. I will scroll the ...
JAXA small lunar landing demonstrator "SLIM ". Watch how it travels to the moon's surface in this animated explainer. Credit: ...
An animation by Texas-based company Intuitive Machines of its 2022 spacecraft landing on the moon has been shared on social media by people who say the video is proof that the landing was faked. They ...
Click to enjoy a journey across our spacious solar system courtesy of Josh Worth. How do you picture the solar system? Most of us imagine the eight planets as colorful balls of varying sizes moving in ...