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

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

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

Recent scientific research has unearthed an intriguing proposition that Earth may have once been orbited by two moons instead ...

NASA has estimated that the metals in these asteroids could be worth as much as $10 billion per person, and mining the richest ten asteroids could yield $1.5 trillion. However, the actual extraction ...

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

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

Regulus, a distant star, Venus and our moon will be visible during a conjunction tonight, and how Californians can best see ...

A partial solar eclipse happens Sunday in parts of the Southern Hemisphere. Saturn will also appear at its brightest, with ...

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 was found in the constellation Piscis Austrinus, which can be seen in ...

Three celestial bodies are preparing to meet up for one night in September in a cosmic conjunction that should be widely ...

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 ...