April’s pink “micromoon” will appear smaller than other full moons this year as it nears its farthest point from Earth in its ...

An asteroid called 2020 CD3 was bound to Earth for several years before leaving the planet’s orbit in 2020 and another called 2022 NX1 became a mini-moon of Earth in 1981 and 2022 and will return ...

The asteroid is shaped like a hockey puck and is about the size of a football field in diameter which is about 60m.

YR4, once feared to hit Earth, may now strike the Moon in 2032, with NASA tracking its path using the Webb Telescope., ...

This vapor formed a disc around the Earth that eventually cooled and clumped together to become the moon. We know this thanks to rigorous studies of meteorites and rock samples, including at the ...

That can happen only when the Earth is precisely between the sun and the moon. It’s a reasonably rare event because the moon’s orbital path around Earth is inclined to the ecliptic – the ...

The mission's main objective is to investigate whether the moon is habitable ... assist" maneuver around Mars later this week, and the Earth again next year — a circuitous path that not only ...