Viral social media posts claim Earth is getting another moon for a short period of time. “Earth is set to temporarily obtain ...

Researchers have now revisited the study to see if the sudden break in human activity on Earth led to the cooling down of the ...

THE moon is just a chunk of the Earth and not mainly part of an ancient planet as previously thought, scientists claim. Experts had believed our satellite was created when hypothetical body Theia ...

Dwarf planet Pluto and our Earth are the only two worlds in our solar system with very large moons. These may have come about by a "kiss and capture" process, which preserves a moon's large size.

Sucerquia and colleagues selected five sets of spherical moons and their neighboring planets, including Earth and the moon. For each set, the team added rings to all the satellites, then simulated ...

Look to the sky – and ask Bulldog nation for support – and one of Earth's quasi-moons gets a cool new name, thanks to University of Georgia student Clay Chilcutt. In May 2024, the science ...