For more than sixty years, a tiny asteroid has been moving in step with Earth, hidden from view until recently. Astronomers ...

A recently observed object called 2025 PN7 was found orbiting near the Earth. The quasi-moon is expected to accompany our planet in a similar orbit for 60 years.

Stargazers can tune in to the Virtual Telescope Project's YouTube stream beginning at 11 p.m. EDT on Sept. 17 (3:00 GMT Sept. 18) to see live views from the organization's robotic telescopes located ...

Earth asteroid lurked undetected for decades until a telescope in Hawaii spotted it earlier this year. It may be Earth's ...

On Aug. 23, 1966, NASA's Lunar Orbiter 1 sent back the first photo of Earth from the moon. It showed a grainy crescent Earth ...

In 1966, NASA's Lunar Orbiter 1 captured the first image of Earth from the Moon. This photograph showed Earth as a fragile ...

An illustration of the paper plane's trajectory as it launches from the ISS. NASA/JAXA/Acta Astronautica Building a spacecraft could one day be as simple as folding a piece of paper into a plane and ...

Learn more about tides and tidal bulge, and how they’re contributing to the moon drifting away.

In modern conflict, power is no longer just projected from aircraft carriers or missile silos – it now comes from constellations in orbit. What was once the preserve of scientific prestige has quietly ...