Our Moon follows an elliptical path around the Earth, getting as close as 363,000 km and as far as 405,000 km. This means the Earth would get bigger and smaller in the sky.

The Blue Ghost private space probe, part of NASA's CLPS program, continues its mission to explore the Moon. During recent maneuvers, the spacecraft transmitted new footage from the back of the ...

The Moon is 238,900 miles away from Earth, but DSCOVR is a whopping 1 million miles away. The satellite is nearly 800,000 miles away from the Moon when it passes in front of the planet.

A close-up version of the transit video looks almost surreal. Nagy says this is one of his best ISS transit images ever. Here is my #ISS lunar transit animation with a different approach.Once I've ...

A view of Earth from the moon's south pole according to NASA visual artists. (Image credit: NASA) The virtual camera in the animation is on the rim of Shackleton Crater , partially visible in the ...

Earth set to say goodbye to its ‘mini moon’ that could be a chunk of the real moon - The so-called mini moon will be overwhelmed by stronger tug of sun’s gravity.

A huge rock orbiting near Earth appears to have originated from the moon, the second such object known to exist, with maybe more than a dozen awaiting discovery. The asteroid, called 2024 PT5, is ...

The Moon's real age, and creation from the collision of Earth and Theia, finally confirmed (Updated) A new study has determined with 99.9% accuracy that the Moon was formed 95 million years after ...

For a few months last fall, a school-bus-size space rock named 2024 PT5 gained fame as Earth’s new “mini-moon.” Astronomers rushed to study the object while it was still close enough to ...

The moon, so bright and large in the sky compared to other celestial objects, has captured the attention of humans at least since the dawn of consciousness. Over these eras, mankind's view of the ...

Earth is bidding farewell to a tiny asteroid that joined its orbit for nearly two months. The asteroid, known as 2024 PT5, is set to be drawn away from Earth by the powerful pull of the sun on Monday.