That marble moon is so small I had to put an arrow over it for you. So here's what it comes down to: If you want to show the Earth-sun-moon system, you'd seem to have two options. You could show ...

A viral claim says the world will go dark on Aug. 2. It won't — but a record-breaking solar eclipse is coming in 2027.

Planet Earth is about to witness a special event, as an asteroid will be within our orbit for two months. Several asteroids came near Earth in 2024 and had "near-miss encounters," but now NASA has ...

Even if the Earth runs out of oil and gas, and a dense veil of smog plunges the world into darkness, we will still have ...

This is perhaps essential given that around 2,000 near-Earth asteroids — defined by NASA as measuring larger than 460 feet across and boasting orbits that bring them within 4.6 million miles ...

As the lunar eclipse begins, the moon will start moving through Earth's shadow on Thursday at 11:57 p.m. ET. However, the moon's gradual dimming won't be noticeable until around 1:09 a.m. on Friday.

A supermoon occurs when a full moon coincides with the satellite's closest approach to Earth in its elliptical orbit. A lunar eclipse, meanwhile, results from the Earth moving between the sun and ...

An asteroid called 2020 CD3 was bound to Earth for several years before leaving the planet's orbit in 2020 and another called 2022 NX1 became a mini-moon of Earth in 1981 and 2022 and will return ...

The moon orbits around the Earth, rather than the Sun, because it is within Earth’s Hill sphere radius. Earth has a larger Hill sphere radius than Mercury. Credit: Nicole Granucci.

Similarly, viewing Venus dwarfed by the Sun was a revealing moment. The worlds accompanying Earth around the Sun are varied in size, shape, color, and composition.