Asteroid 2024 YR4, though not an Earth threat, now poses a collision risk to the Moon. Scientists estimate a 4.3% chance of ...

The moon is floating in the Canadian night sky. The moon orbits around the Earth. In extreme cold, gravity is only one-sixth ...

#2. The Moon came from Earth. It didn’t form beside our planet, and Earth’s gravity didn’t capture it. The latest theory says ...

Learn about the increased impact probability of 2024 YR4, an asteroid that has a small chance to hit the Moon in 2032.

Look to the east before sunrise on June 22 to catch the delicate form of the crescent moon shining with Venus alongside the Pleiades star cluster.

Recent flybys of the fiery world refute a leading theory of its inner structure—and reveal how little is understood about ...

There will be three full moons during the summer. And the sky this season has a number of bright stars that form easily ...

Tiny glass beads formed in the fires of explosive volcanic eruptions on the moon, and brought back to Earth by Apollo 17, ...

A later variation appeared in a book, titled The Discovery of a World in the Moone by John Wilkins (1614-1672), an English ...

No one expected these glittering bits among the gray lunar dust back then. The beads, smaller than grains of sand, formed ...

Thanks to the Moon’s orbit around Earth, the angle of sunlight hitting the lunar surface and being reflected back to our planet changes. That creates different lunar phases. The next Full Moon ...

SpaceX's Starship exploded in a fiery blaze during a routine engine test in Texas – raising questions about what's next for ...