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 Moon by bouncing lasers off mirrors placed there by space ...

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

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

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CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. A quick online search will tell you that the Moon is about 238,855 miles away from the Earth. That’s a pretty long way away, but in this episode of STEM in 30 we’re looking at scale models.

The findings are a big clue as to why the far and near hemispheres of the moon look so different.