For a brief, but exciting, time last year, Earth had two moons. A small asteroid lingered close to our planet in its orbit ...
The Blue Ghost lunar lander, built by the Texas-based company Firefly Aerospace for NASA, launched to space on Jan. 15, and ...
The football represents the Sun and the modelling clay ball is the Earth. Because the Earth is always slowly spinning, everywhere on Earth turns in and out of ... The Moon is always a sphere ...
For a few months, Earth had a second moon — a tiny asteroid that may have been a piece of our own Moon ...
Scientists think a small rock discovered near Earth last August was hurled into space by an ancient impact on the lunar surface.
The Earth formed over 4.6 billion years ago out of a mixture of dust and gas around the young sun. It grew larger thanks to countless collisions between dust particles, asteroids, and other growing ...
The new moon is the so-called "invisible phase of the moon," according to NASA, because the illuminated side of the moon is facing away from Earth, toward the sun ... check out our guide to ...
You may see a round, red moon on the day whose digits, 3/14, look like an approximation of the mathematical constant related ...
Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Two eclipses will occur in the next few weeks—a lunar eclipse in the ...