As of Monday, Oct. 20, the moon phase is Waning Crescent. Tonight, only 1% will be lit up, according to NASA's Daily Moon ...

So the bottom line is that the gravity of the closer tidal bulge on the Earth is pulling the Moon forward, which increases ...

Researchers are discussing 2025 PN7, a small celestial body that's following a similar orbital path to our planet's without ...

"It is incredible that modern telescopic surveys have the ability to detect such small objects up to millions of kilometers away." Half a dozen fragments of the moon may briefly orbit Earth at any ...

Astronomers have found a 19m-wide space rock that has been quietly hanging around Earth since 1957. This quasi-moon poses no threat.

In May 2024, a series of coronal mass ejections from the Sun resulted in an extreme geomagnetic storm at Earth. This is the ...

For more than sixty years, a tiny asteroid has been moving in step with Earth, hidden from view until recently. Astronomers now confirm that this small body, named 2025 PN7, is traveling in a special ...

The next full moon is a special supermoon. The first of three to occur this year. When to watch and what to know.

A private spacecraft carrying NASA instruments to the surface of the moon in preparation for astronauts to return in the years ahead has reached lunar orbit about a month into its spaceflight.