A newly discovered object is silently shadowing Earth in a bizarre orbital pattern scientists rarely observe. Tracked by NASA ...
Even most rocket scientists would rather avoid hard math when they don't have to do it. So when it comes to figuring out ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The moon and sun share top billing in 2026. Kicking off the year’s cosmic wonders is the moon, drawing ...
A small asteroid spotted only hours before it struck the atmosphere has become a touchstone for how fragile, and how powerful ...
A new dataset from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory maps one million cis-lunar orbits, highlighting orbital stability challenges, space domain awareness needs, and planning requirements for Moon ...
January's full Wolf Moon, which is also a supermoon, will rise in the Gemini constellation, appearing bigger and brighter ...
One of the oldest unsolved riddles in planetary science concerns the origin of the moon. Over a century ago, George Darwin proposed that tidal and centrifugal forces on a rapidly rotating proto-Earth ...
The galaxy’s most common stars may be missing a key ingredient for life: Long-lived moons. Most stars in our galaxy are small, cool M-dwarfs—the kind astronomers often look to when searching for ...
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Multiple impacts on Earth might better explain our moon’s origin than a single giant impact 4.5 billion years ago – and could help solve one of its biggest mysteries. But Earth and the moon are ...
Days before the Japanese lunar lander Hakuto-R crashed into the Moon, its camera snapped an incredible photo of Earth. Seen here, our beautiful blue marble was captured rising above the gray lunar ...
The Moon is getting 1½ inches (3.8 centimeters) farther away from the Earth every year. Scientists measure the distance to the Moon by bouncing lasers off mirrors placed there by space probes and ...