"It is incredible that modern telescopic surveys have the ability to detect such small objects up to millions of kilometers ...

This July, skywatchers across Southern California are in for a remarkable sight as the crescent Moon and Mars converge in a ...

Could we have detected 2024 YR4 sooner? ESA's Near-Earth Object Mission in the InfraRed (NEOMIR) satellite, planned for launch in the early 2030s, will cover this important blind spot.

YR4 won’t hit Earth, but a 4% chance remains for a lunar impact. ESA's upcoming NEOMIR telescope could revolutionize early ...

New research shows how special the Earth and Moon are: we’re big enough to get a big Moon, but small enough for it to be relatively large.

Not all full moons are created equal, and a great example of this is June's full moon, which you can check out this week. Also known as the strawberry moon, June's full moon will be one of the ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft snapped a rare photo of Earth and the moon together. The moon is farther and fainter than you might think. Let's find it.

The rush to return humans to the Moon and build lunar bases could threaten opportunities for astronomy, for which the Moon is uniquely suited.

Early interactions with the Earth may have heated up the Moon and caused it to remelt, producing new lunar rocks and erasing old craters.

The space rock's anticipated trajectory places it at about half the distance to the moon, so people with telescopes may be able to see it from Earth.

The asteroid was discovered in August and is set to become a mini-moon, spinning around Earth in a horseshoe shape for about two months.

Still, the sun remains a well-known blind spot in the search for near-Earth asteroids — and 2023 NT1 is hardly the first stealthy space rock to slip past our detection.