The Earth formed over 4.6 billion years ago out of a mixture of dust and gas around the young sun. It grew larger thanks to countless collisions between dust particles, asteroids, and other growing ...

Ask the students to write or draw their impressions of the Moon after looking at various images online. How is it similar to Earth? How is different? What might you see if you visited the Moon?

Look at how the Earth's tilt changes how much sunlight the northern hemisphere receives. The Moon is always a sphere but you may have seen different shapes of Moon in the sky. These are called the ...

One of the first studies to draw the full moon–sleep connection was a retrospective analysis published in 2013. Meaning, the ...

It was dubbed the "hunter supermoon" based on the seasons in the northern hemisphere (more on that later). Thursday night was ...

NASA scientists calculated that Earth should have captured a "second moon" on Sunday (Sept. 29). The "mini-moon" is actually the tiny asteroid 2024 PT5, which usually orbits the sun as part of a ...

This asteroid is going to revolve around the Earth as a part of its “horseshoe” orbit from 29 September until the 25 November ...

Earth will get a second moon for about two months this year when a small asteroid begins to orbit our planet. The asteroid was discovered in August and is set to become a mini-moon, revolving ...

The use of bright colors was hyper-regimented in their villages (every meetinghouse blue, every bedstead green), but ...

Earth will get a second moon for about two months this year when a small asteroid begins to orbit our planet. The asteroid was discovered in August and is set to become a mini-moon, revolving ...

Earth will likely get another satellite, a mini-moon, tomorrow for two months. Know how and where you can enjoy the sight of the new mini-moon.(via REUTERS) This autumn, Earth is about to get a ...