In August 2025, Pan-STARRS Observatory made a breakthrough discovery by detecting a quasi-moon in Earth's orbit.

2025-PN7 is around 62 feet (19 meters) wide, and it’s between 2.8 million miles and 37.2 million miles away from Earth. It ...

Recent scientific research has unearthed an intriguing proposition that Earth may have once been orbited by two moons instead ...

It’s as if an invisible hand meticulously arranged the moon's rotation to deliberately conceal its far side from our view on ...

Early Earth lacked life’s essentials until a collision with Theia added them. This chance event made life possible. After the ...

Until recently, we could only study geology by looking at rocks on Earth and the Moon —well, and the rare meteor or two that ...

Where do we come from? How did our planet form? How do we know about the history of our solar system? You can explore these universal questions in the Moon, Meteorite and Solar System Gallery. Earth’s ...

Yet, there is another natural satellite in the solar system that holds many real mysteries, which remain unexplained by science even today. This satellite is Titan, and I have seen many people ...

Smithsonian researchers analyzed fragments of the near-Earth asteroid and discovered water-rich clays that hint at a distant ...

Riding alongside IMAP, NOAA's SWFO-L1 will serve as a dedicated solar alert system, monitoring space weather and energetic particles in real time. Its data will feed directly into NOAA's forecasting ...

On September 7, the moon will turn a coppery red during an 82-minute eclipse, one of the most widely seen celestial shows of ...