The sun's gravity will pull the moon farther away from Earth than it's been in over five years on Nov. 19, though it'll be ...

“Impact flashes on the moon are very common,” University of Colorado Boulder astrophysical and planetary sciences professor ...

The asteroid, known as 2022 RD2, belongs to a rare class of space rocks called Arjunas. These objects travel around the sun ...

New research suggests that Theia, the object whose collision with Earth is theorized to have caused the formation of the moon ...

The sun’s gravity would be pulling the moon away from Earth on November 20, 2025, at a distance that it had never been in the ...

To our best of our understanding, the Moon formed from Earth following a colossal impact. A Mars-sized world we nicknamed ...

The moon was 252,706 miles from Earth’s center at 2:46 a.m., roughly four hours before the new moon phase begins. This distance marks one of the four largest separations between Earth and its natural ...

Astronomers recently detected a stray quasi-moon in our planet’s orbit, but it's hardly the first stowaway to hang out around ...

2025 PN7 is a small, dim asteroid that appears to orbit Earth, according to EarthSky. Believed to be a piece of the moon that ...

Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research led the study. They examined iron isotopes in 15 Earth ...

"The most convincing scenario is that most of the building blocks of Earth and Theia originated in the inner solar system.

This week in Skywatch, I want to go back to basics when it comes to the moon. So why does the moon change shape? Why is it a crescent on one night, a half-moon another night, and a full moon on yet ...