Every so often, Jupiter's strong gravity sends an asteroid hurtling through the solar system, sometimes towards Earth. Last ...

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 ...

The newly discovered asteroid is expected to tag along on the Earth's path around the sun for another 60 years.

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

NOAA's GOES-19 satellite may have captured the first natural solar eclipse from space, with the moon's odd path explained by a spacecraft maneuver.

As of Wednesday, Sept. 24, the moon phase is Waxing Crescent, and according to NASA's Daily Moon Observation, there's just 7% ...

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

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

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

The three spacecraft will be forecasting solar storms, mapping our solar neighborhood and observing the outer layer of ...

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

Earth has a new quasi-moon, which is called 2025 PN7. A new paper has revealed that it has been orbiting near our planet ...