The Earth stands alone in the solar system as a habitable world, as far as we know. But that doesn’t mean we don’t get visitors, most often in the form of (usually harmless) asteroids. Some even ...

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 ...

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

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

Smithsonian National Postal Museum, Washington, D.C.

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

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

The DART mission achieved its goal of changing one asteroid’s orbit around another, but questions remain about why the orbit ...

Scientists have discovered a previously unknown quasi-moon that’s been shadowing Earth’s orbit for decades, undetected, and will likely remain there for a few decades more. The quasi-moon, named 2025 ...

Comets, meteor showers, a supermoon are among the celestial showcases that await stargazers in the Capital Region and Hudson ...

Earth has a hidden moon that has been sharing its orbit since the 1960s, researchers claim A new astronomical body has been detected around Earth, and experts are stunned. The discovery, a quasi-moon ...

Wildfires are an increasingly common feature of life in American West, and researchers are working overtime to understand how ...