Discover the story of the Vickers 559, a British supersonic interceptor designed to outpace Soviet bombers. With advanced canard designs, Mach 2.5 speed, and nuclear missile capabilities, this ...

James O'Donoghue, a former NASA scientist who now works at the Japanese space agency (JAXA), made a new animation ... falls across the moon as it orbits Earth. In one orbit of about 29.5 days ...

They fell into the planet's orbit and ... times closer to Earth than it is today. As it cooled, the moon backed away, retreating thousands of miles into the distance. A new animation depicts ...

But because the moon's orbit is slightly tilted relative to Earth's orbit around the sun, it doesn't block out the sun on every orbit, hence why not every new moon results in a solar eclipse ...