The Moon, our constant celestial companion, is drifting away from Earth at a slow but measurable rate. According to a ...

The Moon is rusting — and it’s Earth’s fault. Scientists have found that oxygen particles blown from Earth to the Moon can ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to ...

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 ...

Would you guess that the Earth is spinning at 1,000 mph around its axis and at the same time hurtling through space on its ...

Earth, sun, moon: three objects in space whose interactions have a pretty big impact on our lives. Earth orbits the sun once a year, and it rotates on its axis about once a day (depending on your ...

Over 4.6 billion years ago, Earth took shape from a spinning cloud of dust and gas surrounding the young sun. Tiny particles within this cloud collided and clumped together, driven by gravity and ...

The NOAA GOES-18 and GOES-19 satellites saw a solar eclipse as the moon blocked out the sun mere hours before a lunar eclipse ...

Researchers are discussing 2025 PN7, a small celestial body that's following a similar orbital path to our planet's without being gravitationally tied to Earth ...

A coronagraph is used to study the sun, but recently NOAA's instruments caught the moon as well. To study the sun, scientists use a specialized telescope called a coronagraph. This instrument mimics a ...

En route to land on the moon, a spacecraft snapped views of Earth eclipsing the sun. The Blue Ghost lunar lander, built by the Texas-based company Firefly Aerospace for NASA, launched to space on Jan.