The moon performed a cosmic ballet with Mars this week. On Monday evening (Jan. 13), the Full Wolf Moon passed in front of ...

PT5, a near-Earth object discovered last year, has captivated scientists with its potential lunar origins. Likely ejected ...

By sheer coincidence, Mars is also opposite to the sun, though its actual moment of "opposition" will not come until late on Wednesday, Jan. 15. Still — both objects, the moon and Mars ...

"Mars' time and position of reappearance is difficult to judge since the planet lies concealed behind the moon beforehand," the league said. Why is it called the Wolf Moon? The mo ...

January’s full moon, the “Wolf Moon,” rose alongside Mars at its brightest, occulting it for a short period as seen from ...

2025's first full moon will be the last of four consecutive supermoons, according to NASA. But it's a pretty eventful lunar ...

Deimos is Mars' outer moon. It's a tiny ... the orbits of Deimos and Phobos are stable and nearly circular; captured objects tend to have more eccentric orbits, often orbiting retrograde or ...

At 8:07 p.m. Monday, stargazers in Chicago will see Mars disappear behind the moon and reappear on the other side of the moon at 9:17 p.m. Also this week, multiple planets will be clearly visible in ...

An asteroid that orbited near Earth for a few months as a mini-moon may be a chunk of the moon that was blasted off by an impact thousands of years ago.

A chunk of space rock that visited near Earth's orbit last year was widely called a "mini-moon," a nickname that was more ...

For a brief, but exciting, time last year, Earth had two moons. A small asteroid lingered close to our planet in its orbit ...