Recent discoveries have challenged previous assumptions about the space near Earth, revealing a potential population of ...

Last year in August, the number of moons orbiting Earth temporarily doubled, admittedly from the low starting point of "one", ...

The Earth started as a mixture of gas and dust around the Sun and grew as it collided with asteroids and dust particles.

New research suggests there may be a hidden population of minimoons lurking near Earth, with fragments of the Moon traveling ...

until a large asteroid crashed into the Earth so hard that the Moon broke away and shot into space. There, it began orbiting the Earth as it does now. Still under construction Most big asteroids ...