A mini moon that will bid farewell to Earth soon may in fact be a small hunk of the big moon — the one that has loomed far ...

Astronomers at the Complutense University of Madrid first spotted this intriguing event using a powerful telescope in ...

Earth may have had a ring made up of a broken asteroid over 400 million years ago, a study finds. The Saturn-like feature ...

It sounds like something out of a science-fiction movie. For the past couple of weeks, Earth's orbit has been home to a "mini-moon" the size of a city bus. The celestial object is more than just a ...

A supermoon happens when the moon is simultaneously full and at the part of its orbit that's closest to Earth, according to NASA. The moon's distance from Earth varies between around 221,457 miles ...

Astrophiles will welcome the peak illumination of the Beaver Moon this mid-November. Here's the date of the full moon in ...

Friday marks the final supermoon of 2024, the last of four consecutive instances of the phenomenon to end the year.

This month's full moon will also be a supermoon: When the moon’s orbit brings it closer to Earth than usual, the cosmic combo is called a supermoon. A supermoon occurs when the moon’s orbit ...

A supermoon occurs when the moon is at its closest point to Earth. Although we tend to think of the moon’s orbit as a perfect circle, it is in fact slightly elliptical, so sometimes the moon is ...

This month's full moon will also be a supermoon: When the moon’s orbit brings it closer to Earth than usual, the cosmic combo is called a supermoon. A supermoon occurs when the moon’s orbit ...

It happens when the full moon occurs at the same time when it is closest to the Earth in its orbit. The term “supermoon” was coined by astrologer Richard Nolle in 1979 to describe a full moon ...