A chunk of space rock that visited near Earth's orbit last year was widely called a "mini-moon," a nickname that was more ...

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 ...

The full moon will appear a bit more petite in the sky tonight as the smallest full moon of 2024 rises. February's Full Snow Moon will occur while the moon approaches its farthest point from Earth ...

Here's a full moon fun fact: The February 2025 full moon will be the smallest one of the year. It's the reverse phenomenon of a supermoon, when the full moon appears extra large as it rises over ...

Scientists think a small rock discovered near Earth last August ... rock named 2024 PT5 gained fame as Earth’s new “mini-moon.” Astronomers rushed to study the object while it was still ...

Jupiter has four large moons – Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto – with diameters of more than 3000 kilometres. However, as of April 2023, we know it is also home to 91 additional small satellites.

Neil Armstrong thought he had a 50–50 shot at pulling it off. "There are so many unknowns," the first man to set foot on the moon said in a 2011 interview with an Australian accounting firm.