A chunk of space rock that visited near Earth's orbit last year was widely called a "mini-moon," a nickname that was more ...

The lander, Blue Ghost, fired its engines for four minutes Thursday to propel the spacecraft into lunar orbit ahead of a ...

The Blue Ghost lunar lander, built by the Texas-based company Firefly Aerospace for NASA, launched to space on Jan. 15, and ...

But surprisingly, the object’s orbit around the sun is similar to Earth’s ... have its orbit slightly altered by a very close approach with the Earth-Moon system, and then recede away from us on the ...

A total lunar eclipse hasn't happened in years, and won't happen again for a few more, so now's the time to take in the ...

For a brief, but exciting, time last year, Earth had two moons. A small asteroid lingered close to our planet in its orbit around the Sun, temporarily caught by Earth’s gravity to become a far away ...

A temporary “mini-moon” orbiting the Earth for the last two months drifted away on Tuesday, resuming its journey around the Sun. The 10m-wide asteroid dubbed 2024 PT5 had been circling the ...

The impact on the oceans if the Moon disappeared would be much smaller tides, about one-third the size of what they are now.

A new study implies that in the past, moons in our solar system may have had rings just like planets do — deepening the mystery of why no ringed moons exist today.

A collection of down-to-Earth facts about our planet and its place in the solar system ... and further away from the Sun each year, which causes the seasons. The Moon's reflection of light ...

But surprisingly, the object’s orbit around the sun is similar to Earth’s ... altered by a very close approach with the Earth-Moon system, and then recede away from us on the ‘outside ...