The micromoon, occurring when the full moon reaches its farthest orbital point, appears subtly smaller than normal.

“The moon’s orbit around the Earth is not perfect; it’s elliptical, or egg shaped. So, there are points throughout the year when it’s closer to the Earth and points when it’s farther ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured stunning new images of an asteroid that was once ranked as the biggest threat to Earth. Earlier this year, the asteroid 2024 YR4 shot to the top of the ...

Instead, a ring of light is created around the moon. A partial solar eclipse occurs when the moon passes between the sun and Earth when the trio is not perfectly aligned. As a result, only the ...

BEIJING -- China has successfully established the world's first three-satellite constellation based on the Distant Retrograde ...

Multiple spacecraft captured the moon's shadow sweeping across North America at more than 1,500 mph during the 2024 total ...

Scientists have hypothesized since the 1960s that the sun is a source of ingredients that form water on the moon. When a ...

Nasa says there is a small chance a recently spotted asteroid could collide with the Moon ... around 53-67m (174-220ft), or about the size of a 10 story building. But Nasa's Centre for Near ...

Thanks to the Moon’s orbit around Earth, the angle of sunlight hitting the lunar surface and being reflected back to our planet changes. That creates different lunar phases. The next Full Moon ...

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

An international team is currently closely tracking the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4. The impact probability estimates for ...

The feisty planet is part of an exhibit at the REACH called “ Celestial Bodies: Earth, Moon, Mars ,” which is itself part of ...