The moon's orbit isn't a perfect circle. Instead, it's more stretched out, kind of like an oval, which means its distance from Earth varies by about 30,000 miles (48,000 km). The surface of the moon ...

Texas U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee referred to the moon as a planet and said, “A full moon is that complete, rounded circle which is made up mostly of gases, and that’s why the question is why or how ...

Sometimes I look at the Moon and realize how little I actually know about it—what it's made of and how it formed. In this video, I explore NASA's Johnson Space Center and their top-secret lab that ...

A Democratic congresswoman is getting a lesson about space after a claim she made about the moon. On Tuesday, a video surfaced of Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) speaking about the moon. She said, ...

“I’ve always been somebody who was a minority among minorities, being marginalized and also being attracted to marginalized subcultures. Rock ‘n’ roll is where I found my family, and in cannabis, I ...

You may have seen videos of astronauts jumping on the moon. Their movements appear bouncier and lighter than how we move on Earth, and this is thanks to gravity. Gravity is "the force by which a ...

On Christmas Eve 1968, Apollo 8 crewmembers Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders made a live broadcast from orbit around the Moon.

The moon is our constant companion and the only natural object that always orbits Earth. It's about four times smaller than Earth and its gravity is much weaker, which is why astronauts bounce around ...