There are dark areas on the Moon. These are really dry land but long ago astronomers thought they were filled with water, so they called them seas Crater 308 Image: NASA

Moonquakes are a regular occurrence on the Moon. Apollo astronauts left behind a seismometer to measure Lunar seismic activity

The term “Blue Moon” has nothing at all to do with colour. It is commonly accepted that the term refers to a full moon that rises twice in one month. This occurs around once every 33 months. As the cycle of the moon is 29.5 days, and as the number of days in a month […]

The Moon is the fifth largest natural satellite in the Solar System with a diameter of about 2,160 mi (3,476 km), somewhat more than 1/4 the earth’s diameter. The moon has about 1/81 the mass of the earth and is 3/5 as dense. One theory is that the Moon was once a part of the […]

The Moon is a 4.6 billion year old ball of rock that circles around Earth once every 27 days, 7 hours and 43 minutes