In a spectacular cosmic event, Earth is about to get a "second moon" this fall. An asteroid passing through the Earth will be pulled by its gravitational force. This “second moon” will ...

Starting in late September, Earth is going to have a second moon for two brief months ... news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your ...

Earth will soon have two moons, but not for long. According to a study published in the journal Research Notes of the American Astronomical Society (AAS), the “moon” in question is a celestial ...

In our oceans, the moon’s gravity pulls more strongly on the near side of Earth, producing a bulge; inertia from Earth’s rotation produces a second one to balance the first. Instead ...

Every now and then, the Earth finds itself with a new companion moon – 2022 NX 1 became a mini-moon in 1981 and 2022, for example – and we get an opportunity to look at them up close.

Although the rocks that record the earliest parts of Earth’s history have been destroyed or deformed over time by more than four billion years of geology, scientists can use modern rocks, moon samples ...