For more than sixty years, a tiny asteroid has been moving in step with Earth, hidden from view until recently. Astronomers ...

The NOAA GOES-18 and GOES-19 satellites saw a solar eclipse as the moon blocked out the sun mere hours before a lunar eclipse ...

NOAA's GOES-19 satellite may have captured the first natural solar eclipse from space, with the moon's odd path explained by ...

Earth asteroid lurked undetected for decades until a telescope in Hawaii spotted it earlier this year. It may be Earth's ...

Aside from 2025 PN7, there are 7 other quasi-moons, according to the Planetary Society, which they refer to as “a gravitational sleight of hand.” From our terrestrial point of view, they may appear to ...

A satellite the size of a microwave oven successfully broke free from its orbit around Earth and is headed toward the moon. It's the latest step in NASA's plan to land astronauts on the lunar surface ...

NASA's Psyche captured images of Earth and our Moon from about 180 million miles (290 kilometers) away in July 2025. NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU The Psyche spacecraft is on a six-year journey to reach a ...

Learn more about tides and tidal bulge, and how they’re contributing to the moon drifting away.

Over 4.6 billion years ago, Earth took shape from a spinning cloud of dust and gas surrounding the young sun. Tiny particles within this cloud collided and clumped together, driven by gravity and ...

On Sept. 21-22, a partial solar eclipse will see the moon sweep over the sun's disk, blocking its light over a swathe of the ...

The asteroid known as 2024 YR4 is out of sight yet still very much on scientists' minds. The building-sized object, which initially appeared to be on a potential collision course with Earth, is ...