There's something special about spotting a full moon in the night sky. While some will associate it with mythical legends of ...

The moon's ascending node (the point in the sky where its orbit crosses the ecliptic from south to north) is moving westward ...

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

Scientists found that an asteroid impact carved two massive canyons on the moon in minutes. High-speed debris helped shape ...

That's good news for scientists and NASA, which is looking to land astronauts at the south pole on the near, Earth-facing ...

is moving westward around the ecliptic once in 18.61 years (6,798 days). This drift carries the node early this year through the March equinox, and hence the moon's path is tilted 23.5 degrees + 5 ...

Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.

Elizabeth Kneafsey hates cities and crowds, instead she cares for her flock of 130 ‘Shetlandics’ and spends lambing season ...

First spotted last month by a telescope in Chile, the near-Earth asteroid known as 2024 YR4 is estimated to be 40 to 100 metres across. It's travelling at around 15 times the speed of a high ...

Our four seasons are a result of the Earth’s axis ... Due to the moon’s orbit being tilted at 5.1 degrees to the ecliptic, its range of motion is even greater than that of the sun. On rare occasions, ...