With Taylor Swift singing songs about Clara Bow, audiences have turned their attention to the first days of cinema. But even ...

Do you know how big the moon is? Or how many earths can fit inside the sun? The students at Potter Gray Elementary learned the answers and so much more about the solar system. The Orbit Earth Expo ...

Only when the moon, Earth and the sun are perfectly aligned is the moon 100% full. And sometimes — once in a blue moon — the moon is full twice in a month (or four times in a season ...

A tiny asteroid loitering in a near-Earth orbit for a few months last year may have an intriguing origin on our Moon. Its characteristics led scientists to ask: is it a chip off the old lunar block, ...

While this may sound like an immense distance, it's pretty close on a cosmic scale: the moon ... Earth Object or NEO, which are defined as objects that come within about 120 million miles of the ...

Oct. 4, 2022 — Most theories claim the Moon formed out of the debris of a collision between the Earth and an object about the size of Mars, called Theia, coalescing in orbit over months or years ...

The prevailing theory had been that the moon was the result of a collision between early Earth and the protoplanet Theia. New measurements indicate that the moon formed from material ejected from ...

In January 2025, NASA’s Goldstone Solar System Radar is closely tracking asteroid 2024 PT5 during its nearest approach to Earth, a distance still five times farther than the Moon. First spotted in ...

TOLEDO, Ohio — The Wolf Moon ... reach Earth. Light wavelengths representing the color red are much longer than those representing blue, for instance. This is why both the moon and sun often ...

While a solar eclipse involves the moon passing between the sun and the Earth, casting a shadow across our planet, a lunar eclipse involves the Earth passing directly between the moon and the sun.

Two lunar landers built by private companies in the US and Japan have left Earth aboard a SpaceX rocket as part of a rideshare to the Moon. The Falcon 9 took off from the Kennedy Space Center in ...