In orbit around the moon, the astronauts looked down on the bleak, pockmarked landscape of the lunar far side, and then looked up to see the earth rise over the moon's gray horizon. Historian ...

Scientists say gravity as well as tidal forces are responsible for pushing the moon further away from our planet ...

Although the rocks that record the earliest parts of Earth’s history have been destroyed or deformed over time by more than four billion years of geology, scientists can use modern rocks, moon samples ...

When astronauts first saw Earth from afar in the Apollo 8 mission in 1968 - the US's second manned mission to the moon - they described a cognitive shift in awareness after seeing our planet ...

In September 2005 Afar herders in northern Ethiopia watched in amazement as the Earth yawned open and swallowed their goats and camels. Chunks of obsidian burst from subterranean caverns and flew ...

Brian Walsh’s experiment on Blue Ghost did not look at the moon but back at Earth. “It’s a really ... The view from afar should help scientists tell whether that boundary shifts slowly ...

You just have to be in the right place at the right time. A solar eclipse occurs when the moon is positioned between Earth and the sun and casts a shadow over Earth. Solar eclipses only occur ...