Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Moon is getting 1½ inches (3.8 centimeters) farther away from the Earth every year. Scientists measure the distance to the ...

The Moon appears unchanging in the night sky, but its movement hides a slow transformation. For decades, scientists have observed that our satellite is gradually moving away from Earth, year after ...

The Moon is gradually drifting away from Earth at a rate you could measure with a ruler if you waited […] ...

It sounds like a sci-fi plot, but it’s a cold, hard scientific fact: our closest cosmic neighbor, the moon, is slowly moving farther from Earth. Is this a big deal? And if so, how does it affect life ...

There is a long and intriguing history behind the human obsession with the Moon, which is thousands of years old. Nevertheless, even though people obs.

Earth’s atmosphere is slowly leaking into space, and new research shows some of it reaches the Moon, where it may be ...