Earth has a newly discovered—albeit temporary—companion in its journey around the sun. In research published this month in ...

Megastructures have big impacts on the world - namely the people around and the environment they affect. However, this one ...

Asteroid 2024 PT5 is considered Earth's mini-moon and may be a key target for potential asteroid mining operations.

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

Learn more about tides and tidal bulge, and how they’re contributing to the moon drifting away.

Astronomers have identified a tiny quasi-moon, 2025 PN7, orbiting near Earth for about 60 years. This 62-foot-wide near-Earth ...

The Earth stands alone in the solar system as a habitable world, as far as we know. But that doesn’t mean we don’t get visitors, most often in the form of (usually harmless) asteroids. Some even ...

Earth is the only planet in our solar system with a single moon, making it a rare phenomenon for a planet of its kind.

As of Monday, Sept. 22, the moon phase is Waxing Crescent, and according to NASA's Daily Moon Observation, there's just 1% ...

At its nearest, 2025 PN7 comes 186,000 miles (299,337 kilometres) from Earth. Its average distance is about 238,855 miles ...

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.