Every year, the moon, Earth's reliable celestial companion for 4.5 billion years, is getting 1.5 inches away. The distance to ...

Researchers from Spain have discovered a kind of second moon orbiting around Earth. Known as Apollo asteroid 2025 PN7, it was ...

Earth has a number of mini-moons and quasi-moons. Mini-moons are objects that orbit our planet. But they make for fickle fans: They tend to swing around Earth for only a matter of months. One example ...

The next full moon will be the largest and brightest full moon of the year - the October 2025 harvest supermoon. Here's what ...

Astronomers have found yet another quasi-moon companion of Earth in its orbit around the Sun believed to be a chunk of our ...

Did you see the bright star next to the moon? That was Venus, and part of a conjunction between the moon, Venus and the star ...

In a new study published in the journal Research Notes of the American Astronomical Society, astronomers report the discovery ...

Long ago, the Moon was much nearer Earth. Scientists believe a protoplanet collision created the Moon 4.5 billion years ago.

A new study has revealed that the Earth’s celestial companion, the Moon, is moving away from the Earth at the rate of 1.5 ...

So the bottom line is that the gravity of the closer tidal bulge on the Earth is pulling the Moon forward, which increases ...

Because of the sun's positioning in the days just before, during and after the equinox, those looking down east-west roads in Chicago and the suburbs will be able to see the sun framed by much of the ...

Quantum cryogenics manufacturer Bluefors is betting big on Interlune, a startup that aims to extract Helium-3 from the lunar surface by 2028.