The airless chasm between Earth and the moon is so vast ... then try scrolling through a to-scale virtual solar system where the moon is just 1 pixel large. Sean Kane contributed to this post.

Physicists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory led by Slava Turyshev arrived at the 57 microseconds figure by computing the sliding scale of time for the Earth-Moon system relative to the Solar ...

says that the team reached this figure by calculating the sliding scale of time for Earth and the Moon relative to the barycentre of the Solar System. "This is the Solar System's common centre of ...

Dwarf planet Pluto and our Earth are the only two worlds in our solar system with very large moons. These may have come about by a "kiss and capture" process, which preserves a moon's large size.

Thanks to the parallax effect, the Moon's relative motion in its orbit around Earth appears significantly ... illustration of the scale and grandeur of the Solar System. Similarly, viewing Venus ...