Project A119 was a Cold War-era response to Sputnik, with the goal of using a nuclear explosion in space to scare the Soviets ...

"Asteroids and comets with a perihelion distance (closest to the Sun) less than 1.3 astronomical units (AU), or approximately ...

In this theory, the moon formed from the impact debris—a mixture of molten ... Some scientists believe that the oxygen isotopes are because the object that hit Earth was made up of the same mixture of ...

While asteroid 2023 DZ2 poses no threat of impacting Earth during this visit, there is a miniscule chance it could hit us when it returns ... cruising inside the moon’s orbit.

The beaver moon, the next full moon and last supermoon of 2024, will light up Ohio skies in mid-November. Here's what to know ...

or they hit it and leave a streak in the sky or a dent in Earth’s crust. However, in more rare cases they are captured by Earth’s gravitational pull, becoming a mini-moon, according to the ...

A new study posits that our planet's gravity will cause seismic activity on Apophis when it makes its close approach in 2029.

Skygazers should have a chance to see the Orionids, one of the year's most beautiful meteor showers, just in time for Halloween.

Sunlight hits the northern hemisphere at a shallow ... and half faces away from it. As the Moon orbits the Earth, we see it from different angles. We see different amounts of the lit and dark ...

A new moon occurs when the moon is directly between Earth and the sun ... Each time a new moon hits, it’s a great time to begin working on something new, to sow seeds with the expectation ...