An asteroid that orbited near Earth for a few months as a mini-moon may be a chunk of the moon that was blasted off by an ...

The small near-Earth asteroid 2024 PT5 has been creating a buzz among researchers. Discovered last year with the help of a ...

For a few months, Earth had a second moon — a tiny asteroid that may have been a piece of our own Moon ...

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

It is thus only fitting for a goddess to be named for none other than the door hinge: Cardea. And now, thanks to Clay ...

Monday's full moon has a lot going on, which would make anyone ... This is when the moon reveals its full dayside to Earth. The moon will appear full for around three days. Mars won't become ...

What is the moon phase today? Today, Jan. 29, 2025, the moon is 30 days old, in the New Moon phase of its lunar cycle. It is 0% illuminated. Moon phases reveal the passage of time in the night sky.

Dwarf planet Pluto and our Earth are the only two worlds in our ... objects are orbiting each other rather than a small moon going around a big planet. So how did Earth and Pluto get such large ...

Inside a giant sphere, the engineers pored over their equipment. Before them stood a silvery metal contraption swathed in ...

But surprisingly, the object’s orbit around the sun is similar to Earth’s ... faint rocks ejected by the moon. “We’re also going to have to get savvier about how we can whittle down ...