Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The moon's orbit isn't a perfect circle. Instead, it's more stretched out, kind of like an oval, which means its distance from ...

As of 2026, only twelve people have ever set foot on the moon—all of them American astronauts from NASA’s Apollo missions between 1969 and 1972. It took six missions to make it happen, with Neil ...

The Moon is getting 1½ inches (3.8 centimeters) farther away from the Earth every year. Scientists measure the distance to the Moon by bouncing lasers off mirrors placed there by space probes and ...