Samples collected from the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu have revealed clues about a primordial magnetic field that helped ...

For the past couple of weeks, Earth's orbit has been home to a "mini-moon" the size of a city bus. The celestial object is ...

New research explores if the moon was captured by Earth or formed by a collision. Scientists weigh theories, analyzing lunar ...

it orbits the sun, just like the Earth does," Fisher said. "However, its orbit is fairly close to Earth's, and this just happened to be a time where the little moon — sometimes also called a ...

The moon’s orbit around Earth is also an important factor in understanding phenomena such as eclipses and phases. During a ...

The asteroid, named 2024 VX3, will pass us at a distance of 92,100 miles, closer than the moon's 238,900-mile orbit.

The half of the Moon facing the Sun gets illuminated and the other half ... As the Moon continues to orbit Earth we can see more and more of the lit side. At various stages in its orbit it is ...

Not only is it a supermoon, meaning our lunar satellite will be slightly brighter and closer, but it's the last supermoon ...

The beaver moon, of course, is named for the animal itself. Beavers are the largest living rodents in North America and are ...

Earth, is precisely sandwiched between the Sun and the Moon. This alignment ensures the entire side of the Moon that faces us gleams under sunlight. Thanks to the Moon’s orbit around Earth ...

The half of the Moon facing the Sun gets illuminated and the other half ... As the Moon continues to orbit Earth we can see more and more of the lit side. At various stages in its orbit it is ...