Earth has picked up a new traveling companion – an asteroid named 2025 PN7 that now moves through space in step with us. This ...

Astronomers recently detected a stray quasi-moon in our planet’s orbit, but it's hardly the first stowaway to hang out around ...

The asteroid, known as 2022 RD2, belongs to a rare class of space rocks called Arjunas. These objects travel around the sun ...

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 ...

Something called a "quasi-moon" was discovered in August, and now many are wondering if we should count our new neighbor as a ...

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 ...

Space has a knack for bending our sense of scale. The Moon feels close enough to touch—after all, we see its craters with ...

This meant that both celestial bodies were neighbors before the collision took place. To support this hypothesis, researchers ...

New research suggests that Theia, the object whose collision with Earth is theorized to have caused the formation of the moon ...

“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 ...

Your last chance to see a supermoon in 2025 is approaching quickly. December's full moon is scheduled to appear on Dec. 4, ...

Theia, the world that helped form the Moon, came from the Solar System. Chemical clues in Earth and Moon rocks reveal this ...