New calculations suggest that a large asteroid recently predicted to have an increased odds of striking Earth could miss the ...

The Blue Ghost lunar lander has captured its first images of the moon from the spacecraft’s orbit around Earth ... as it travels along its orbital path. On Earth, those in the path of totality ...

New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair of grand canyons ...

Late on March 13 and in the early hours of March 14 this year, 13 percent of the world's population will fall in the path ... of Earth relative to the sun. However, the moon's orbit around Earth ...

The lunar nodes are two points where the plane of the moon's orbital path around Earth meets Earth's orbital plane around the sun. This is called the ecliptic. The orbital paths meet on rare occasions ...

During a total lunar eclipse, the sun, Earth, and moon align the moon’s path directly into the Earth’s shadow, or the umbra. During the alignment of the sun, Earth, and moon, some of the sunli ...

The object that struck the moon is estimated to have been about 15 miles (25 km) in diameter, larger than the asteroid that struck Earth 66 million years ago and doomed the dinosaurs. "When the ...

On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid moving away from ...

Blue Ghost took its first photos of the moon from the spacecraft's orbit around Earth. - Firefly Aerospace The company ...

New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair of grand canyons on the lunar far side.