A new take on the origins of Earth’s water claims to reveal the composition of the Earth in the first few million years after ...

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Oct. 7 full moon marks first supermoon of 2025. What we know about Harvest moon, Draconid and Orionid meteor showers.

A University of Georgia sophomore has won a contest to name one of Earth's quasi-moons. Out of nearly 3,000 options, Clay Chilcutt's suggestion of "Caldea" took the top prize in a contest held by ...

Uranus has 29 moons orbiting it. The first two moons Herschel spotted in 1787 were Oberon and Titania, and they are Uranus's largest moons. There is another Uranus moon that the James Webb Space ...

A weird "quasi-moon" of Earth is about to get a name — and you can be part of the process. Earlier this year, the science podcast Radiolab and the International Astronomical Union (IAU) — the ...

For researchers at the University of Idaho, spotting a moon 6 miles wide orbiting Uranus, a staggering 1.8 billion miles from ...

Did you see the bright star next to the moon? That was Venus, and part of a conjunction between the moon, Venus and the star Regulus. Will it return?

China’s Tianwen-2 probe captured Earth’s image while traveling to asteroid Kamoʻoalewa. It will explore the solar system ...

Scientists have gotten a never-before-seen look at an area around a large exoplanet 625 light-years away where moons like the ...

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Skies should be fairly clear across most of Missouri tonight, with the exception of southeastern and northwestern regions, according to the National Weather Service. At the supermoon's peak, sky cover ...