What’s different about this 10-day test flight is not only that it returns astronauts to the vicinity of the moon for the ...
As they fly around the moon, the four astronauts of NASA's Artemis II will see views never seen by the human eye. Here's how.
That misalignment means the tidal bulges pull on the Moon gravitationally, which gradually speeds up the Moon’s orbit. When ...
During its initial molten phase, the Moon experienced tidal bulges on its near and far sides due to Earth's immense gravitational pull. The Moon's rotation initially carried these gravitationally ...
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) ...