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Everyone who has ever lived on Earth has been well-aware of the moon, but it turns out Earth also has some frequent temporary ...
2025-PN7 is around 62 feet (19 meters) wide, and it’s between 2.8 million miles and 37.2 million miles away from Earth. It ...
The total number of quasi-satellites of our planet has gone up by one. There are now 8 small asteroids going around the Sun ...
As it spins around Earth, the moon is about to reach its closest point to the blue planet.
Earth asteroid lurked undetected for decades until a telescope in Hawaii spotted it earlier this year. It may be Earth's ...
The moon looks bigger in the night sky because it is in perigee, or the point where the moon reaches its closest point to ...
On Aug. 23, 1966, NASA's Lunar Orbiter 1 sent back the first photo of Earth from the moon. It showed a grainy crescent Earth ...
"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 ...
As of Friday, Sept. 12, the moon phase is Waning Gibbous, and it is 71% lit up to us on Earth, according to NASA's Daily Moon ...
A strange shift in Earth's rotation is making our days milliseconds shorter — and scientists are racing to understand why. The days are getting shorter and not just because summer is waning in the ...