It is widely believed that the moon formed during a collision between Earth and a small planet known as Theia.

"The commonly quoted average distance of 384,400 kilometers, or 238,855 miles, is a good approximation," said Craig Hardgrove ...

The Moon, Williams and Zugger say, has an orbit around Earth that isn't as neatly aligned with the equator as you might ...

Sept. 29, Earth captured a new "mini-moon" called 2024 PT5. The bus-size asteroid is expected to orbit our planet for 57 days ...

The tides we experience in all bodies of water on earth are caused by the gravitational pull of the Moon and Sun. At the Bay ...

The facility has 900 tons of pulverized volcanic rock, akin to lunar soil, laid out over an area just bigger than a ...

Asteroids are ripe for mining. Some contain gold or platinum. Others could help make rocket fuel. When they're mini-moons, ...

An asteroid known as 2024 PT5—and nicknamed the "Mini Moon"—will orbit Earth alongside the moon from Sept. 29 to Nov. 25. See ...

There's nothing else like Earth and its Moon in the entire Solar System. Other planets either have multiple moons, or none at all, but the mass ratio of our world and its hefty satellite is quite ...

NASA has announced plans to standardize the temporal readings for our lunar cousin by developing an official Coordinated ...

What is the moon phase today? Today, Oct. 8, 2024, the moon is 6 days old and is in the Waxing Crescent phase of its lunar cycle. It is 26% illuminated. Moon phases reveal the passage of time in ...