The structure of the moon has perplexed astronomers for centuries before the advent of spacecraft. In the early 20th century, ...

While helium-3 is exceedingly rare on Earth, it’s plentiful on the Moon. But getting it won’t be simple. The race to harvest ...

As mankind was planning the first moon landing in the 1960s, an asteroid approached Earth—and still hasn’t left.

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Earth still only has one true natural satellite — our 2,159-mile-wide moon oribiting about 239,000 miles away. However, experts recently found the latest of the planet's quasi-moons; a small body that ...

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

A supermoon occurs when the Moon is at its closest point to Earth in its elliptical orbit, called perigee, and is also full.

F or centuries, dating back to long before the invention of the telescope, people have reported odd flashes that sometimes ...

We've been so engrossed in coverage of 3I/ATLAS that we nearly failed to note another comet currently in Earth's skies. This ...

Has the moon been looking brighter and bigger to you for the past few days? Here's why this month's supermoon is even more ...

Unlike the familiar Moon, 2025 PN7 does not orbit Earth. Instead, it travels around the Sun along a path that closely ...