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

U.S. scientists confirm Earth's new quasi-moon, 2025 PN7, sharing our orbit for 60 more years. Learn how quasi-moons work and what they reveal about our solar system.

Fictional depiction of what blowing up the asteroid could look like. AI-generated image. A city-block-sized asteroid named 2024 YR4 is hurtling through space, and it has our Moon in its sights.

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

Late in 2024, a small asteroid stirred astronomers. Discovered on December 27, the asteroid rock—since christened 2024 YR4—was first thought to pose a threat to collide with Earth.

The newly discovered asteroid is expected to tag along on the Earth's path around the sun for another 60 years.

Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a chance of hitting the moon. To save it from collision, scientists are considering launching a nuclear bomb at the asteroid.

The Artemis II mission represents a major step forward for NASA and seeks to send four astronauts—Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen—around the Moon and back. The 10-day ...

An asteroid has a slight chance of hitting the moon in 2032. Here's what to know about 2024 YR4 and a way to stop that.

NASA is pushing to fly as early as Feb. 6 next year on the first crewed mission of the Orion spacecraft for a 10-day flight around the moon.

NASA announced a launch date for first crewed flight to the moon since 1972. The Artemis II mission will circle the moon but not land on the surface. If successful, NASA is set to put humans on the ...

An Oct. 6 full harvest moon will be the first of 3 supermoons that will appear in the night sky over the rest of 2025.