Scientists have discovered a second moon in orbit around Earth, but don’t expect to see it when you look up at the night sky.

Jupiter's moons resemble little moons! Do they orbit in a regular pattern, similar to how the Moon orbits the Earth? Today, ...

The solar system has many more moons than the one we can see in the sky. But how many do we actually know about? And how many ...

As of Monday, Sept. 1, the moon phase is Waxing Gibbous, and 62% will be lit up to us on Earth, according to NASA's Daily Moon Observation.

Scientists say we are about to get a second moon - for more than two months. The so-called 'mini moon' will orbit our planet from September 29, say researchers in Madrid. Researchers at ...

This week in Skywatch, I want to go back to basics when it comes to the moon. So why does the moon change shape? Why is it a ...

Scientists working for a NASA-funded project at the University of Arizona said that a possible "mini moon" is currently orbiting the Earth. Kacper Wierzchos of the Catalina Sky Survey tweeted this ...

Explore the mysterious 'mini-moons in Earth's orbit' and how the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope will help us discover them.

In 1966, NASA's Lunar Orbiter 1 took the first photo of Earth from the Moon's orbit. The iconic image was restored in 2008 ...

What Hubble was able to do was provide evidence by tracking the planet and proving it had crossed an hour earlier than expected, which like earth and its moon shows a planet and moon orbiting a ...

Lunar eclipses only ever happen during the full Moon, when the Sun and Moon are on opposite sides of the Earth. When things ...

The last people to travel beyond Earth's orbit were the crew of Apollo 17 who journeyed to the Moon 50 years ago. The success of the Apollo program gave rise to aspirations of a permanent presence ...