The small near-Earth asteroid 2024 PT5 has been creating a buzz among researchers. Discovered last year with the help of a ...

Understand the moon phases and you can wager a pretty good guess for when the next full moon is no matter where we are in the ...

A huge rock orbiting near Earth appears to have originated from the moon, the second such object known to exist, with maybe more than a dozen awaiting discovery. The asteroid, called 2024 PT5 ...

As it continues to brighten, it takes on an oblong, or "gibbous," shape until it reaches ... the entire day side of the moon (so, technically, this would be the real half moon)," NASA wrote ...

Scientists found that an asteroid impact carved two massive canyons on the moon in minutes. High-speed debris helped shape ...

A description of why and how the shape of the Moon appears to change when seen from the Earth. The Moon is lit by the Sun. Half of the Moon is lit and half is dark. When the dark side of the Moon ...

As it orbits the Earth, we see the Moon from different angles each night. It appears to change shape as we see different parts of the surface lit up. These shapes are called the phases of the Moon.

Scientists proposed an explanation for the formation of Vallis Schrödinger and Vallis Planck near the lunar south pole, which ...

Welcome to this month’s edition of “What’s up in the sky?” February has a nice lineup of planets and some eye-catching ...