Two Grand Canyon-size features on the far side of the moon were likely formed in about 10 minutes after an unknown object ...

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 ...

For a brief, but exciting, time last year, Earth had two moons. A small asteroid lingered close to our planet in its orbit ...

PT5, which almost became a temporary mini-moon to Earth, was recently found to be a broken-off part of the moon itself. This ...

The moon is Earth's constant companion ... and sometimes it's a little farther away. When you look up at the moon, you might think about how it's shining like a lantern in the sky.

Sitting between the Earth and the Sun, DSCOVR’s primary mission is to monitor real-time solar winds for the National Oceanic ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft has discovered a giant volcanic hot spot on the surface of Jupiter's hellish moon Io. The eruptions in ...

The Earth's Grand Canyon took millions of years to carve, but the moon's grand canyons took about ten minutes.

Moon phases reveal the passage of time in the night sky. Some nights when we look up at the moon ... you for the next lunar sight. The moon, like Earth, is a sphere, and it is always half ...

You may like What ... of light from Earth's sunrises and sunsets (on the disk of the planet) falls on the surface of the moon. Because the light waves are stretched out, they look red.

Earth has seven known ... if you watch it from the planet, it looks like it’s going around you the way a moon would. But it’s too small and too far away to be a moon,” Radiolab’s website ...

“It looks ... on the moon, the space rocks could reveal more about material on the lunar surface, as well as below it. So far, 2024 PT5 is just the second object in an Earth-like orbit of ...