Earth asteroid lurked undetected for decades until a telescope in Hawaii spotted it earlier this year. It may be Earth's ...

2025-PN7 is around 62 feet (19 meters) wide, and it’s between 2.8 million miles and 37.2 million miles away from Earth. It ...

The total number of quasi-satellites of our planet has gone up by one. There are now 8 small asteroids going around the Sun ...

Everyone who has ever lived on Earth has been well-aware of the moon, but it turns out Earth also has some frequent temporary ...

A team of astronomers has confirmed the presence of a new quasi-moon, named 2025 PN7, which has been following Earth’s orbit undetected for over 60 years. The discovery, published in the Research ...

As it spins around Earth, the moon is about to reach its closest point to the blue planet.

On Aug. 23, 1966, NASA's Lunar Orbiter 1 sent back the first photo of Earth from the moon. It showed a grainy crescent Earth ...

The moon looks bigger in the night sky because it is in perigee, or the point where the moon reaches its closest point to ...

"It is incredible that modern telescopic surveys have the ability to detect such small objects up to millions of kilometers away." Half a dozen fragments of the moon may briefly orbit Earth at any ...

A total lunar eclipse occurs when the Earth positions itself directly between the Sun and the Moon, casting its darkest ...

A total lunar eclipse on March 2-4, 2026, will be visible in North America and will be the last total lunar eclipse anywhere ...