The discovery of a new celestial object in the Earth's neighborhood has created a buzz online asking whether the planet now ...

THAT’s NO MOON - Earth doesn’t just have one moon; sometimes, it has a companion satellite or “mini-moon.” Discovered on ...

As mankind was planning the first moon landing in the 1960s, an asteroid approached Earth—and still hasn’t left.

It sounds like a sci-fi plot, but it’s a cold, hard scientific fact: our closest cosmic neighbor, the moon, is slowly moving ...

Quasi-moons are not real moons and don't actually orbit the Earth, although they sometimes appear to do so for short periods of time, Phil Nicholson, professor of astronomy at Cornell University, told ...

A shy space rock is making its lunar debut. Astronomers believe they’ve discovered another so-called quasi-moon of Earth, though it’s likely been circling undetected in near space for decades. Dubbed ...

It may sound like a sci-fi headline but it's very real -- Earth now has a new celestial companion, a little asteroid named ...

It’s hard to believe, but some reports circulating on social media say there are two moons and there will be for several ...

While learning how to find Mars and other planets have garnered much attention these days, Earth's moon continues to fascinate humans. The moon is located an average of 238,855 miles away, depending ...

March's full "Blood Worm Moon," a phenomenon that makes the moon appear red during a total lunar eclipse, is visible this week for Americans and others in Earth's Western Hemisphere. The full moon ...

It sounds like science fiction: a secret companion has been shadowing our planet since the dawn of the Space Age, a cosmic fellow traveller that went completely unnoticed for over 60 years. But in ...