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

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% ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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