The moon's elongated orbit around the Earth can sometimes cause the moon to appear larger. When the moon is full and its orbit is closest to Earth, the moon is in perigee – the technical name ...

Earth's "second moon" won't be sticking around for Thanksgiving, but just as many of us will on Thursday (Nov. 28), it seems the asteroid was paying a visit to its relatives. Analysis of the ...

You might’ve seen a second so-called “moon” has recently taken up residence in our orbit. The school bus-sized asteroid will be orbiting Earth until Nov. 25.

The moon will appear full for three days, according to NASA, but only Monday’s will be a true supermoon. What makes a moon super? ... the moon does not orbit the Earth in a perfect circle.

Over six missions to the moon, from 1969 to 1972, Apollo astronauts collected more than 800 pounds of lunar rock and soil. Chemical and isotopic analysis of that material showed that it was ...

The sheer number of 4.35 billion year old rocks on the surface suggested to the team that they were due to a widespread remelting event, and the true age of the Moon was somewhat older.

Perigee is the scientific term for the closest point of a moon’s orbit. The average perigee is about 226,000 miles from the Earth. A blue moon is a little less complicated: It has to do with the ...

The asteroid 2024 PT5 will leave Earth on Nov. 25 before Thanksgiving after visiting as a second moon, but new analysis shows it may have been born from our original moon and thus from Earth.