According to a study published in the journal Research Notes of the American Astronomical Society (AAS), the “moon” in ...

This miniature moon is projected to be in Earth’s ... flyby happens when the object doesn’t complete a revolution around ...

Despite predictions that the asteroid might become a temporary mini-moon whirling around Earth, the space rock maintained a horseshoe orbit that brought it close, but it never actually entered ...

The moon's orbit is elliptical, or oval-shaped, meaning its distance from Earth changes throughout its 27.3-day cycle around our planet. Sometimes it's closer to us, which is why we experience ...

As the year ended, a different sort of revolution suddenly forced itself into the world’s imagination. It was represented by the flight around ... earth. It was possible to look at the moon ...

Scientists think a small rock discovered near Earth last August was hurled into space by an ancient impact on the lunar surface. By Becky Ferreira For a few months last fall, a school-bus-size ...

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander, a private spacecraft hired by NASA to take experiments to the moon, is flying laps around Earth right now as it gears up for its first attempt at a lunar ...

A small asteroid lingered close to our planet in its orbit around the Sun, temporarily caught by Earth’s gravity to become a far away mini-moon. A closer look at the space rock reveals a rather ...

The goal was to find a name for one of Earth's seven known quasi-moons ... In truth, however, a quasi-moon follows an orbit around the sun (like an asteroid would) rather than the respective ...

The second full moon of spring 2024 in the northern hemisphere rose last night and was photographed around the globe ... it through the thickest layer of Earth's atmosphere.