A temporary “mini-moon” will whirl around Earth for about two months as our planet’s gravity captures a small asteroid in its orbit.

Tuesday, September 17, 2024, sees a partial lunar eclipse as a full "Harvest Moon" drifts through the edge of Earth's shadow in space. It will set up a "ring of fire." ...

The evening of Tuesday, September 17, 2024, saw a beautiful partial lunar eclipse as the full "Harvest Supermoon" drifted ...

I f astronomers had been walking the Earth 466 million years ago, they may have had something special to see. The moon and ...

From a solar eclipse to a dolphin-like nebula, these winning shots by astrophotographers from around the world depict the ...

The moon's regolith is the layer of loose, fragmented material made up of a variety of materials that have been broken down by billions of years of meteoroid impacts, solar wind, and other space ...

NASA images: The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has released 5 never seen before images of Jupiter and ...

Others do not complete a full revolution lasting a few months, weeks or even days, according to Space.com. Previous mini-moon events occurred in short-lived mini moon in 1981 and 2022, researchers ...

a rocket launch or any other astronomical and space event that’s out of this world. People all over North America spent the afternoon awed by the movement of the moon’s shadow, the last time ...

On October 2, 2024, an annular solar eclipse will occur, visible in parts of the Pacific Ocean, southern Chile, and southern ...

A recently discovered asteroid will soon become a quasi-satellite of Earth as it loops around our planet over the next two ...

This month's harvest moon will not only coincide with a supermoon, but also with a blood moon and partial lunar eclipse. For ...