For the past couple of weeks, Earth's orbit has been home to a "mini-moon" the size of a city bus ... rocky object that orbits the sun. Amateur astronomer Tony Dunn posted a simulation to X ...

Why doesn’t our planet look round when we’re standing in a park or looking out a window? An expert explains what you're ...

An asteroid the size of a school bus is due to zip past our planet on Wednesday, coming closer to us than the moon ... Earth. "A NEO is defined as an object that has a closest approach to the Sun ...

The phenomenon of a Full Moon arises when our planet, Earth, is precisely sandwiched between the Sun and the Moon ... Note: Moon phases in the calendar vary in size due to the distance from ...

Earth, between sweltering Venus and frozen Mars, formed and orbits within a band where water could persist in solid, liquid, and gaseous phases. Mars had surface water, but not as much as Earth, and ...

The scientific term for supermoon is perigee syzygy of the Earth—Moon—Sun system, which to me sounds ... or apogee—which is like comparing the size of a nickel to a quarter.

Related stories For about 14 days at a time, the side of the moon facing Earth is a boiling hellscape that is exposed ...

Related stories For about 14 days at a time, the side of the moon facing Earth is a boiling hellscape that is exposed directly to the sun's harsh ... In 2019, more American kids polled said ...

Over the quarter century I’ve been writing this column, I've been flabbergasted by the advances in telescopes for backyard ...

It was all about the U.S. election last week. The U.S. stock market and Bitcoin loved it, and both soared to new all-time ...