It's the Full Moon.

The object dubbed Earth's "second moon" is actually a quasi-satellite that's accompanied the planet since 1957 — not a true moon.

A rare lunar occultation will occur on Feb. 2 when the moon passes directly in front of bright star Regulus as seen from a path through North America.

Earth’s atmosphere is slowly leaking into space, and new research shows some of it reaches the Moon, where it may be preserved in lunar soil.

Asteroid 2024 YR4 has shifted from a near term scare to a slow burning celestial drama. Instead of slamming into our planet, the space rock now has a small but real chance of crashing into the Moon, blasting out debris that could light up our skies and rattle the infrastructure we have placed in orbit.

Earth's radiation budget is a core process of the Earth-atmosphere system, closely linked to global climate and environmental changes. While current satellite observations have greatly advanced our understanding of Earth's radiation budget,

The gleaming moon hanging in our sky has been the subject of countless songs, poems, myths, and legends. But in reality, what would happen if the Earth suddenly lost the moon? Quite a few things, actually. The moon's influence on our planet is surprisingly ...

See footage Orion Spacecraft, moon and Earth shortly before its "outbound powered flyby burn". Orion was less than 2000 miles away from the moon and over 200,000 miles away from Earth. Credit: Credit: NASA / edited by Space.

Earth's quasi-moons are not actually moons, but temporary asteroids that eventually leave Earth’s orbit JPL-Caltech/NASA A new "quasi-moon" named 2025 PN7 has been discovered, according to a newly-released paper Scientists out of a Hawaii observatory ...