The moon's orbit is elliptical, or oval-shaped, meaning as its distance from our planet changes, its apparent size changes, ...

The lander, Blue Ghost, fired its engines for four minutes Thursday to propel the spacecraft into lunar orbit ahead of a ...

(KTLA) — Earth will soon have two moons, but not for long ... days or months – but without completing one revolution around ...

This miniature moon is projected to be in Earth’s ... flyby happens when the object doesn’t complete a revolution around ...

For a brief, but exciting, time last year, Earth had two moons. A small asteroid lingered close to our planet in its orbit around the Sun, temporarily caught by Earth’s gravity to become a far away ...

Despite predictions that the asteroid might become a temporary mini-moon whirling around Earth, the space rock maintained a horseshoe orbit that brought it close, but it never actually entered ...

Scientists think a small rock discovered near Earth last August was hurled into space by an ancient impact on the lunar surface. By Becky Ferreira For a few months last fall, a school-bus-size ...

influence on the earth itself (Taurus) with the added emotionality and fireworks of Leo. During the full moon, the Sun in Aquarius and the Moon in Leo will both form activating squares with Uranus.

The goal was to find a name for one of Earth ... moons are "moons" that orbit planets and seem to behave like regular moons at first glance. In truth, however, a quasi-moon follows an orbit around ...

Cruithne is more of a companion than a moon. It flies near Earth about once every 385 years, the last time being around 100 years ago. Don't worry about any catastrophic impact, however.

There will also be two total lunar eclipses that occur during the March and September full moon events. A lunar eclipse, ...