Ever since Isaac Newton famously talked about gravity, its dominance as a force in our solar system has been well known. It's ...

Thanks to the parallax effect, the Moon's relative motion in its orbit around Earth appears significantly faster than the movement of Mars in its orbit around the Sun. There are undoubtedly ...

But it won't be a star that will be keeping the moon company on this early winter's evening, but the largest planet in the ...

For months space enthusiasts were fascinated by a small asteroid that was pulled by Earth's gravity and was fondly referred to as Earth's second Moon. A new study now reveals could have indeed been ...

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 impact thousands of years ago.

PT5, a near-Earth object discovered last year, has captivated scientists with its potential lunar origins. Likely ejected ...

27 at 7:45 p.m. EDT (00:45 on Feb. 28). A new moon occurs when the moon is directly between Earth and the sun, with its shadowed side pointing towards us. You can see a new moon when it crosses ...

Asteroid 2024 PT5 was discovered by Nasa's Asteroid Terrestrial-Impact Last Alert System (ATLAS). Scientists believe that the ...

While a solar eclipse involves the moon passing between the sun and the Earth, casting a shadow across our planet, a lunar eclipse involves the Earth passing directly between the moon and the sun.

A near-Earth object was likely ejected into space after an impact thousands of years ago. Now it could contribute new ...