How do you make a numerical model that shows the motion of the Earth-Sun-moon system? Here, I use vpython to create the calculation.

A new explanation for the moon’s origin has it forming inside the Earth when our planet was a seething, spinning cloud of vaporized rock, called a synestia. The new model led by researchers at the ...

The relative rotation of the Earth, moon, and sun is about 97 percent accurate in this working Lego orrery.

Learn how to make a scale model of the Sun and the Earth with this guide for KS3 physics students aged 11-14 from BBC Bitesize.

Earth’s moon is an unusual object in our solar system, and now there’s a new theory to explain how it got where it is, which puts some twists on the current “giant impact” theory. The work is ...