The Earth and moon are within view of NASA's Artemis 1 Orion spacecraft. The Earth is over 260,000 miles away (418,000 km) in ...

JF flew about 199,000 miles (320,000 km) away from Earth. It's estimated size is about 34 feet wide (10 meters), roughly the ...

The lights dimmed. The previews rolled. Halfway through the film, a father seated beside me leaned over and reminded his ...

Watch a huge solar filament erupt on May 12–13. Spanning 600,000 miles, the event will likely miss Earth, but scientists are keeping a close eye on it.

A total lunar eclipse occurs when Earth is directly between the Sun and the Moon, casting its shadow on the Moon. This phenomenon can only occur during a full moon, when the three celestial bodies are ...

An asteroid that orbited near Earth for a few months as a mini-moon may be a chunk of the moon that was blasted off by an impact thousands of years ago.

An asteroid that orbited near Earth for a few months as a mini-moon may be a chunk of the moon that was blasted off by an impact thousands of years ago.

En route to land on the moon, a spacecraft snapped views of Earth eclipsing the sun.. The Blue Ghost lunar lander, built by the Texas-based company Firefly Aerospace for NASA, launched to space on ...

Let's say we want to build a model of the sun and Earth alone. Earth has a radius of about 6,371 kilometers (3,959 miles), but let's represent this with a marble 1 centimeter in diameter.

But, as this short from the YouTube series MinutePhysics details, if you use the Sun as your frame of reference, the truth becomes much more complicated. Explained via a series of nifty ...

Its closest approach to Earth won’t be until Jan. 9, 2025, at 0.012 AU (an astronomical unit is the average Earth-Sun distance), about five times the distance of our real Moon. PT 5 will return ...

Earth is about to gain a new “mini-moon,” but it won’t stay around for long. The newly discovered asteroid, named 2024 PT5, will temporarily be captured by Earth’s gravity and orbit our ...