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

Situated in the Arctic Circle, Norway is known as the Land of the Midnight Sun. For about 76 days from May to late July, Norway becomes a country without night. The sun remains up for around 20 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A recently discovered comet is making a bright debut on Earth this month, and with some effort, skygazers might be able to see Comet ATLAS. Comet C/2024 G3 ATLAS was discovered in April 2024 using the ...

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 ...

As a volcanic eruption darkened the sun roughly 4,900 years ago, a Stone Age culture sacrificed hundreds of decorated stone plaques to try to coax it back. A trove of engraved stones unearthed ...

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.