Learn about 2024 YR4, the asteroid with a 4 percent chance of hitting the Moon in 2032, and the possible timeline of effects that could follow.

On some evenings the rising Moon seems to swell into a glowing disk that dwarfs city skylines and mountain ridges, as if it ...

It sounds like a sci-fi plot, but it’s a cold, hard scientific fact: our closest cosmic neighbor, the moon, is slowly moving farther from Earth. Is this a big deal? And if so, how does it affect life ...

Earth’s atmosphere is slowly leaking into space, and new research shows some of it reaches the Moon, where it may be ...

The gleaming moon hanging in our sky has been the subject of countless songs, poems, myths, and legends. But in reality, what would happen if the Earth suddenly lost the moon? Quite a few things, ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. The moon is getting 1½ inches (3.8 centimeters) ...