Over 4.6 billion years ago, Earth took shape from a spinning cloud of dust and gas surrounding the young sun. Tiny particles ...

Earth will be hosting a "mini-moon" starting this weekend. Also sometimes called a "second moon," the small asteroid will ...

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 ...

Moon is slowly moving away from Earth at a rate of 3.8 centimetres per year. This gradual drift affects Earth’s rotation and ...

A micromoon is set to occur Saturday as the full moon for April is set rise when the celestial body is at its farthest point ...

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

slowing our planet's rotation. As Earth's spin slows, the Moon is creeping away. It takes 27 days for the Moon to go around Earth and 27 days to rotate once on its axis. Because the Moon is orbiting ...

Soil and rocks returned from the moon's far side suggest it may be drier than the side constantly facing Earth ...

As well as rotating, the Earth has a tilt in its axis that ... You can feel it sloshing about, floating around inside. The Moon is not a source of light. The Moon is only visible from Earth ...