I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also applies to northern hemisphere mid-northern ...
The acid yellow moon Io that orbits Jupiter may be less than 30% the size of Earth, but is considered the most volcanic body ...
An asteroid that orbited near Earth for a few months as a mini-moon may be a chunk of the moon that was blasted off by an ...
New research suggests that Earth's recent mini-moon might have originated as part of our actual moon long, long ago.
For a brief, but exciting, time last year, Earth had two moons. A small asteroid lingered close to our planet in its orbit ...
The risk of impact is likely to drop to zero as observations of Asteroid 2024 YR4 continue.
For 366 days, six analog astronauts lived and worked in a sealed environment in Russia, an Earth-based stand-in for ...
Scientists think a small rock discovered near Earth last August was hurled into space by an ancient impact on the lunar ...
The European Space Agency (ESA) has named Italian aerospace company Thales Alenia Space as the lead in the Argonaut lander ...
These changes in appearance are the phases of the moon. As the moon orbits Earth, it cycles through eight distinct phases. The four primary phases of the moon (new moon, first quarter, full ...