Earth, sun, moon: three objects in space whose interactions have a pretty big impact on our lives. Earth orbits the sun once ...

Computer simulations suggest that Mars' puzzling moons, Phobos and Deimos, may have been formed from debris created when a ...

A BUS-SIZED “mini moon” is in the final days of its trip to Earth’s skies – and will soon vanish until 2055. The holidaying ...

The model was developed by a team at the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics, a unit with the Jackson School of ...

New research explores if the moon was captured by Earth or formed by a collision. Scientists weigh theories, analyzing lunar ...

For nearly 40 years, scientists have generally agreed that Earth's Moon formed from debris after a massive collision with our ...

Researchers at the University of Texas have developed a computer model that can detect liquid water on the moons of Uranus by ...

Using Einstein’s theory of general relativity, physicists found that clocks on the Moon would run 56 microseconds faster than ...

The Milky Way pictured from the International Space Station in a long-duration photographCredits: NASA NASA and its ...

The asteroid is due to leave Earth's orbit on Monday, November 25 at 4.43pm in the UK – or 11.43am in New York. It's believed that the asteroid previously appeared near Earth as a "mini moon" in ...

Researchers at Penn State University suggest that Earth’s only satellite may have come from a “binary-exchange capture” ...