Consider the astronomical and tidal changes of a dual-moon system. BREAKING: Supreme Court unanimously rules against Trump, orders return of mistakenly deported man Golf-Fore! Caddie blocks Homa's ...

Originally, the hypothesis was that Theia gave the Earth a glancing blow, and the proto-Earth and Theia lost pieces ending up ...

BEIJING -- China has successfully established the world's first three-satellite constellation based on the Distant Retrograde ...

ELVIS, a holographic microscope bound for the International Space Station, will study how resilient Earth microbes adapt to space ... could help scientists understand whether life might exist on ...

But Earth’s gravitational pull will draw 2024 PT5 towards it and, much like our moon, it will orbit our planet — but only for 56.6 days. While other non-Earth objects, or NEOs, have entered Earth’s ...

Between the two planets hangs the Moon, some 7° high at this time ... This is the closest point to Earth in its orbit around our planet, bringing it some 221,903 miles (357,118 kilometers ...

Mercury and Venus, the two closest planets to the sun ... is roughly a quarter of the diameter of the Earth. The four larger moons are all in orbit around gas giants which are much, much larger ...

The crescent moon will be the centerpiece of April's final astronomical event as it bunches up with Venus, Saturn and Mercury ...

When the dark side of the Moon is facing Earth we cannot see it; this is called a new moon. As the Moon starts to orbit Earth we can see more and more of the lit side. At various stages in its ...

When the dark side of the Moon is facing Earth we cannot see it; this is called a new moon. As the Moon starts to orbit Earth we can see more and more of the lit side. At various stages in its ...

Here’s a little spoiler for next month’s Cosmic Calendar: early May will see the return of the Eta Aquarid meteor shower. The ...