So much so that eventually Earthlings sent human explorers 384,402 kilometres away to find out if there really was a man in the moon. Sadly, they found no evidence of Lunarians or cheese.

NASA plans to send astronauts back to the moon this decade in a series of spaceflights called the Artemis program. The first mission, which concluded Sunday, was a test flight with no crew members ...

There are two points — called nodes — where the moon's orbit crosses the Earth's plane. In the diagram above, the moon is lined up on a node. Related stories The moon aligns with the nodes and ...

But what about the moon? There is a gravitational interaction between ... the motion of the moon depends on the sum of these forces. Look at this diagram of the moon on opposite sides of the ...

In the diagram above you'll see the arrangement ... behind the Earth to be in its shadow. This means there is no direct sunlight reaching the moon, bouncing off the moon, and traveling down ...

what does the moon actually do? Does it really need to be there? And, what would happen if we were to smash it to pieces? This week, Science with Sam explains the hidden benefits of Earth’s ...