Earth gained a mini-moon this Sunday, Sept. 29 by capturing a nearby asteroid with its gravitational field. Earth pulled asteroid 2024 PT5 into its gravitational field, changing the asteroid’s orbit ...

The year 2026 would begin with a full moon, also a supermoon, and Earth’s closest approach to the sun, known as perihelion. It indicated that the Earth, moon, and sun would be very closely aligned, ...

Earth’s atmosphere is slowly leaking into space, and new research shows some of it reaches the Moon, where it may be ...

A lunar milestone was headed our way tonight, on November 20, 2025, as the Moon was going to be the farthest it had ever been. The overbearing gravitational influence of the Sun affected its ...