So I grabbed my camera, ran outside, and looked up just as Mars was supposed to emerge from the Moon's curved horizon. Seen ...

The moon performed a cosmic ballet with Mars this week.

For a brief, but exciting, time last year, Earth had two moons. A small asteroid lingered close to our planet in its orbit ...

They can give insight into how impacts affect the moon or other bodies such as Earth and Mars. They would also help identify ...

and Earth, of course, has just one permanent natural satellite (though it sometimes captures temporary "minimoons"). Nobody knew of any moons orbiting Mars, either, until August 1877. At that time ...

The study suggests that the Moon likely formed largely from Earth's mantle material — with minimal involvement from Theia.

January’s full moon, the “Wolf Moon,” rose alongside Mars at its brightest, occulting it for a short period as seen from ...

Every so often, rather interesting astronomical phenomena occur in our neighborhood, better known as the Solar System, with ...

For a few months, Earth had a second moon — a tiny asteroid that may have been a piece of our own Moon ...

A new study implies that in the past, moons in our solar system may have had rings just like planets do — deepening the ...

Mars in 2024 was the site of the sad end of a machine that lived far beyond expectations. On January 18, NASA's Ingenuity ...