See the epic view of the moon and Earth captured by the Orion spacecraft ahead of its outbound powered flyby. Credit: NASA / ...

Earth briefly hosted a 33-foot object, 2024 PT5, as a mini-moon. Scientists suggest it might be lunar debris from an ancient ...

On Monday night you may have a chance to witness the moon obscuring the Red Planet at its brightest, as well as a comet’s ...

Kareta predicts there are about 16 moon asteroids orbiting near Earth, based on how often they might be produced and how long they should stay in space. Renu Malhotra at the University of Arizona ...

The Moon is Earth’s most reliable partner in space, having orbited our world for around 4.5 billion years—nearly as long as our planet has existed. But new analysis of crystals from the Moon ...

Tariq is the Editor-in-Chief of Space.com and ... this would be the real half moon)," NASA wrote in its moon guide. "The moon is opposite the sun, as viewed from Earth, revealing the moon's ...

This implies that, from the design stage, scientists should configure their spacecraft and instruments in such a way that, ...

Under this program, the space agency sends its payloads ... on Blue Ghost will use X-ray imagery to study Earth’s magnetosphere from the Moon. FIREFLY HEADQUARTERS “As we design technologies ...

When you look up in the night sky, our moon is unmissable.Just like Earth, it's round and has a solid, rocky surface. But is our moon actually a planet? The answer is technically no — at least ...

Dubbed 2024 XN1, the space rock will be jetting by us at ... around 18 times further away from the Earth than the Moon is, and so with this predicted path won’t come close enough to hit the ...

The sun, moon and Earth are on about the same plane, with the full moon occurring when Earth is between the moon and the sun as the moon orbits our planet. “In December, when it is winter in the ...

meaning it orbits the Sun but stays close to Earth. Kamoʻoalewa is roughly 131-328 feet (40-100 meters) in diameter and may be a fragment of the Moon, ejected into space by a past impact event.