Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Artist’s impression of asteroid in space (NASA/JPL-Caltech) The Earth has got itself a new moon. The new satellite is temporary: ...

The world's first three-satellite constellation on the distant retrograde orbit (DRO) of the Earth-Moon system has been successfully established by Chinese scientists. The development lays a ...

Lunar-based measurements reveal Earth’s outgoing radiation is dominated by low-order spherical harmonics, providing unified global data for climate and environmental studies ...

You may have heard a lot of online chatter about Earth's two moons recently, but that doesn't quite get the discovery right. Earth still only has one true natural satellite — our 2,159-mile-wide moon ...

Earth is bidding farewell to a tiny asteroid that joined its orbit for nearly two months. The asteroid, known as 2024 PT5, is set to be drawn away from Earth by the powerful pull of the sun on Monday.

2024 PT5 is a near-Earth asteroid and is 11 meters in diameter (artist's impression shows a generic asteroid close to Earth). After just under two months in orbit, it's time to say goodbye to an ...

A time-lapse view of Antarctica & the moon can be seen in footage captured by the Meteosat-11 satellite. Credit: Simon Proud ...

Astronomers have spotted a quasi-moon near Earth — and the small space rock has likely been hanging out near our planet unseen by telescopes for about 60 years, according to new research. The newly ...

The NOAA GOES-18 and GOES-19 satellites saw a solar eclipse as the moon blocked out the sun mere hours before a lunar eclipse was seen on Earth. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...