The tiny space rock, estimated to be just 3 to 6 feet across, has been temporarily captured by Earth’s gravity and is ...

November’s new moon arrives Monday, beginning a lunar cycle that will end with the first of four consecutive “supermoons” on ...

That change is tiny compared with the approximately 239,000 miles (384,400 kilometers) separating Earth and the Moon on average. Yet over millions of years, this gradual separation influences Earth’s ...

NASA is developing plans for a permanent human presence on the Moon, but building a colony beyond Earth comes with serious ...

A study suggests the launch of NASA's Space Launch System rocket was so strong, it tore a hole in Earth's atmosphere during the Artemis II mission.

Earth has a second moon now. Unfortunately, it's not nearly as impressive as the one we've been looking at for billions of ...

Earth has adopted a new second moon, though it won't be staying very long. Meet 2026 QQ8, a pint-sized asteroid that our ...

The launch of NASA’s crewed Artemis 2 Moon mission sent three sets of ripples through Earth’s upper atmosphere.

NASA’s Artemis II launch created massive disturbances in the upper atmosphere, potentially affecting GPS accuracy and raising ...

Beijing reportedly approved the Long March 9 rocket: 10.6 m wide, about 114 m tall, 50 tonnes to lunar transfer orbit. What ...

Researchers found that when NASA's SLS rocket launched April 1 on the Artemis II mission in Florida, it tore a massive hole ...

The Minor Planet Center had put off assigning a designation to 2026 QQ8 while it was unclear whether the object was space junk or natural. We look at the September and October follow-up observations ...