The sun's gravity will pull the moon farther away from Earth than it's been in over five years on Nov. 19, though it'll be ...
Earth has picked up a new traveling companion – an asteroid named 2025 PN7 that now moves through space in step with us. This ...
2025 PN7 is a small, dim asteroid that appears to orbit Earth, according to EarthSky. Believed to be a piece of the moon that ...
The sun’s gravity would be pulling the moon away from Earth on November 20, 2025, at a distance that it had never been in the ...
The asteroid, known as 2022 RD2, belongs to a rare class of space rocks called Arjunas. These objects travel around the sun ...
About 4.5 billion years ago, Earth had a violent neighbor. A young, still-forming planet named Theia slammed into our world ...
Characteristics: Quasi-moons can range in size from 30 feet to 1,000 feet. They experience gravitational tugs from Earth, allowing them to slide in and out of shared orbits. Discovery: Astronomers ...
“Impact flashes on the moon are very common,” University of Colorado Boulder astrophysical and planetary sciences professor Paul Hayne said. “In fact, they happen more or less every night, and it’s a ...
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.
About 4.5 billion years ago, a colossal impact between the young Earth and a mysterious planetary body called Theia changed everything—reshaping Earth, forming the Moon, and scattering clues across ...