A view of Antarctica & the moon can be seen in footage captured by the Meteosat-11 satellte. Credit: Simon Proud / NCEO and ...

New research explores if the moon was captured by Earth or formed by a collision. Scientists weigh theories, analyzing lunar ...

The European Space Agency's Hera asteroid mission has beamed back its first images from space, capturing a stunning view of Earth and the moon. The Hera spacecraft successfully launched toward the ...

Earth is a profoundly isolated rock. The European Space Agency's Hera craft, en route to an asteroid, recently captured footage of our planet and the moon, set against the black ether of space.

but on a space scale, this is very close: The moon orbits us at a much greater distance of 238,900 miles, and the sun is about 93 million miles away. Stock images of an asteroid passing Earth ...

However, groundbreakingnew research from Penn State offers a bold alternative: Earth may have stolen the moon from space ...

Some nights when we look up at the moon, it is full and bright; sometimes it is just a sliver of silvery light. These changes in appearance are the phases of the moon. As the moon orbits Earth ...

For the past couple of weeks, Earth's orbit has been home to a "mini-moon" the ... have been discovered to be random pieces of space junk. The 2020 mini-moon was eventually identified as a rocket ...

In 1969, Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong stepped onto the moon's surface—a momentous engineering and science feat marked ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A view of Earth and the moon taken using the Hera spacecraft’s Asteroid Framing Camera (AFC ...