As mankind was planning the first moon landing in the 1960s, an asteroid approached Earth—and still hasn’t left.

It's largely agreed that the moon was created around 4.5 billion years ago when a protoplanet collided with early molten ...

(via minutephysics) We think of the moon as orbiting the earth, following a spiraling trajectory as the earth itself orbits the sun. But this is wrong. Not only is the moon's orbit NOT a spiral ...

Earth, sun, moon: three objects in space whose interactions have a pretty big impact on our lives. Earth orbits the sun once a year, and it rotates on its axis about once a day (depending on your ...

Quasi-moons are not real moons and don't actually orbit the Earth, although they sometimes appear to do so for short periods of time, Phil Nicholson, professor of astronomy at Cornell University, told ...

This is a beautiful Lego space set, with approximate month and year positions of the earth's and moon's orbit around the sun and gives plenty of STEM stimulation at the same time. Size and distances ...

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

The Earth often gets a few visitors in the solar system, but some stick around for a while. Here's what to know about the ...

A new astronomical body has been detected around Earth, and experts are stunned. The discovery, a quasi-moon named 2025 PN7, has shocked everyone, as it has supposedly been sharing Earth's orbit for ...