The moon's gravity causes high and low tides, something known as the tidal force. As the tidal force shifts Earth's mass, it ...

For more than sixty years, a tiny asteroid has been moving in step with Earth, hidden from view until recently. Astronomers ...

Two NOAA satellites saw a solar eclipse on Sept. 7 as the moon blocked out the sun mere hours before a lunar eclipse was seen ...

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

Aside from 2025 PN7, there are 7 other quasi-moons, according to the Planetary Society, which they refer to as “a gravitational sleight of hand.” From our terrestrial point of view, they may appear to ...

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost mission successfully makes a Moon landing, marking a milestone for NASA and its commercial partners.

A team of astronomers announced Tuesday that a new satellite measuring roughly 90 football fields across was discovered ...

To study the sun, scientists use a specialized telescope called a coronagraph. This instrument mimics a solar eclipse by ...

Astronomers have discovered what they think may be another moon orbiting a distant dwarf planet called Quaoar. This small, ...

A recently observed object called 2025 PN7 was found orbiting near the Earth. The quasi-moon is expected to accompany our ...

Whenever astronomers detect something new moving through our region of space, like an interstellar object or an unusual ...

The provisionally named S/2025 U1 is so small it had gone unnoticed by probes and telescopes for the past 40 years.