On September 29, 2024, Earth captured a tiny asteroid named 2024 PT5, turning it into a temporary mini-moon. It won't be around much longer.

New research explores if the moon was captured by Earth or formed by a collision. Scientists weigh theories, analyzing lunar ...

It sounds like something out of a science-fiction movie. For the past couple of weeks, Earth's orbit has been home to a "mini-moon" the size of a city bus. The celestial object is more than just a ...

The Beaver Moon will mark the fourth supermoon we've seen in a row in 2024, and it will appear big and bright in the sky.

In an image snapped by the OLI (Operational Land Imager) on Landsat 8, Mexico's most active volcano Popocatépetl can be seen ...

WASHINGTON — Earth's moon will soon have some company — a “mini moon ... planet's gravity and orbit the globe — but only for about two months. The space rock — 2024 PT5 — was ...

Scientists have a few thoughts on how the moon ... and the moon plays an important role in how they work. The Earth and moon's couples dance means the two bodies react to each other.

Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto are, like Earth’s Moon, relatively large, spherical complex worlds. Two previous NASA missions have sent spacecraft to orbit the Jupiter system and collected ...

The next new moon will occur on Sunday, Dec. 1 at 1:21 a.m. EST (0521 GMT). A new moon occurs when the moon is directly between Earth and the ... term but there are two common definitions for ...