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

Did you see the bright star next to the moon? That was Venus, and part of a conjunction between the moon, Venus and the star ...

Is it a full moon tonight? Wondering what is the planet and bright star shining next to the moon? Here's what to know and how ...

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

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.

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

A new moon is when the moon shares the same celestial longitude as the sun; the two bodies are said to be in conjunction.

2025-PN7 is around 62 feet (19 meters) wide, and it’s between 2.8 million miles and 37.2 million miles away from Earth. It ...

Saturn will put on a show for professional and backyard astromers alike, and be the brightest and closest it has been to ...

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

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