A total lunar eclipse will tint the Moon red-orange on the night of March 13 or early in the morning of March 14, depending ...

An asteroid that orbited near Earth for a few months as a mini-moon may be a chunk of the moon that was blasted off by an impact thousands of years ago.

The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

Because the Moon is over a quarter the diameter of Earth, the Earth-Moon system is often cited as the pairing in our Solar ...

Pluto-Charon Formation Scenario Mimics Earth-Moon System Jan. 7, 2025 — A researcher ... Swirling Polar Vortices Likely Exist on the Sun Nov. 11, 2024 — Like the Earth, the Sun likely has ...

A chunk of space rock that visited near Earth's orbit last year was widely called a "mini-moon," a nickname that was more ...

February's full Snow Moon will have a royal companion as it rises alongside Regulus, a star nicknamed "Heart of the Lion", ...

Ever since Isaac Newton famously talked about gravity, its dominance as a force in our solar system has been well known. It's ...

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

Roughly 4.6 billion years ago, the Sun was born from the gas and dust of a nebula that underwent gravitational collapse. The ...

I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also applies to northern hemisphere mid-northern ...

The Blue Ghost lunar lander has captured its first images of the moon from Earth’s orbit as well as a video of Earth ...