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

For a brief, but exciting, time last year, Earth had two moons. A small asteroid lingered close to our planet in its orbit ...

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander, a private spacecraft hired by NASA to take experiments to the moon, got a rare ...

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 ...

February’s typically cold, snowy weather earned it the 'Snow Moon' nickname. Storm Moon and hunger Moon are other common ...

The risk of impact is likely to drop to zero as observations of Asteroid 2024 YR4 continue.

The goal was to find a name for one of Earth's seven known quasi-moons ... In truth, however, a quasi-moon follows an orbit around the sun (like an asteroid would) rather than the respective ...

Because the Moon is over a quarter the diameter of Earth, the Earth-Moon system is often cited as the pairing in our Solar ...

For most of history, the Moon was regarded as a mysterious and powerful object. Then scientists made it into a destination ...

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Exciting February sky events include Venus at its brightest and closest to Earth, the moon occulting the Pleiades, and a ...

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 ...