The moon's oddly skewed dust cloud may be caused by an extreme day-night temperature difference, a new study suggests.

It's largely agreed that the moon was created around 4.5 billion years ago when a protoplanet collided with early molten ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS, which made a close approach to the sun, has prompted lots of public interest. Kim Kardashian asked NASA's ...

As mankind was planning the first moon landing in the 1960s, an asteroid approached Earth—and still hasn’t left.

THAT’s NO MOON - Earth doesn’t just have one moon; sometimes, it has a companion satellite or “mini-moon.” Discovered on ...

Mercury currently appears as a bright "evening star" in the southwestern sky at sunset. Mercury will reach its greatest ...

In a discovery that could rewrite what we know about where water comes from and the building blocks of life in the solar ...

NASA's astronomers have recently discovered a ‘quasi-moon' orbiting within Earth's orbital neighbourhood. This quasi-moon ...

It has been our constant celestial companion for the last 4.5 billion years. But the moon is no longer the only cosmic body keeping Earth company, experts say. NASA has confirmed the Earth now has two ...

Researchers using a NASA supercomputer have modeled Earth’s long-term evolution and projected that the planet could become ...

A distant gas giant the size of 10 Jupiters is now the first planet outside Earth's solar system to be mapped in three ...

This quasi-moon is expected to remain in its current near-Earth orbit for about another 60 years before the gravitational tug ...