There are two small moons in orbit around Mars today, but both may be remnants of a much larger moon that had enough of a ...

Higher-than-normal (and lower-than-normal tides) are heading back to San Diego's coasts through Saturday, according to NBC 7 meteorologists. King Tides — the phenomenon that describes what are ...

A visitor enjoys Laguna Beach on a Labor Day getaway. During king tides, forecasters caution beachgoers to stay off rocks because of the danger of crashing waves. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times ...

The National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) has urged beachgoers to exercise caution during the new moon spring tide, which peaks on Saturday. This natural phenomenon occurs when the sun, moon, and Earth ...

Regular, alternating layers in Gale Crater may have been deposited as the result of tides raised by a moon at least 18 times the mass of Phobos, a study says.

A supermoon occurs when a full or new moon coincides with the Moon’s closest approach to Earth, making it appear bigger and ...

For more than a decade, scientists have accepted that Titan, Saturn’s biggest moon, has a subsurface ocean of liquid water. A ...

Why does the same side of the Moon always face Earth? I know this is called tidal locking, but what is the underlying ...

California is a magical place in the winter, the monarchs return to the state to overwinter, Santa Claus arrives on a surfboard, and twice in two months, the waves get very, very high. King Tides, the ...

The Moon is one of the most charming objects in the night sky, casting its beautiful white light on the Earth. It is also its ...

The Moon is not a fixed lantern in the sky but a slow-moving partner that is gradually edging away from Earth. That retreat is tiny on human timescales, yet over millions and billions of years it ...