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 moon-bound spacecraft has provided the closest thing to a reflecting pool in space, showing Earth as an ...

Asteroid 2024 PT5, which almost became a temporary mini-moon to Earth, was recently found to be a broken-off part of the moon ...

THE moon is just a chunk of the Earth and not mainly part of an ancient planet as previously thought, scientists claim. Experts had believed our satellite was created when hypothetical body Theia ...

The company plans to capture HD imagery of a total lunar eclipse from the moon when Earth will move directly between our neighbor and the sun as it travels along its orbital path. On Earth ...

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A small space rock that lingered near Earth last year and was referred to as its temporary “mini-moon” may actually ... the object’s orbit around the sun is similar to Earth’s, suggesting ...

The discovery of 2024 PT5 doubles the number of known asteroids thought to originate from the moon. Asteroid 469219 Kamo'oalewa was found in 2016 with an Earth-like orbit around the sun ...

The phenomenon of a Full Moon arises when our planet, Earth, is precisely sandwiched between the Sun and the Moon. This alignment ensures the entire side of the Moon that faces us gleams under ...

Only when the moon, Earth and the sun are perfectly aligned is the moon 100% full. And sometimes — once in a blue moon — the moon is full twice in a month (or four times in a season ...

Because its orbit around the sun closely matches Earth's, astronomers determined that the "mini-moon" likely originated from nearby in our solar system. Now, research published this month in the ...