This is a beautiful Lego space set, with approximate month and year positions of the earth's and moon's orbit around the sun and gives plenty of STEM stimulation at the same time. $59.99 at Amazon ...

The mini-moon, nicknamed 2024 PTS, will orbit the Earth in a horseshoe pattern before the gravity of other objects in our solar system pull it off. It will return to orbit the Earth again in 2055.

Earth has a new “mini-moon” after an asteroid has joined our orbit. The object, known as 2024 PT5, has been chasing after us ...

From Sept. 29 to Nov. 25, a passing asteroid will be pulled in by Earth’s gravity − sort of like a window shopper − before returning to its normal orbit around the sun.

This week Lego lifted the lid on a bunch of sets due out next year—largely in January, but one being held for March of 2024 is the Technic Planet Earth and Moon in Orbit.

The moon is Earth’s only friend. And yet—despite a relationship stretching back billions of years—the gap between us only grows wider. Someday, far in the future, we will be left alone.

The moon's orbit around Earth appears so regular that civilizations have based the month on lunar motion for thousands of years. However, the moon is actually creeping slowly away from Earth. So ...

And if you’re worried about our beloved moon eventually moving far enough away from us to escape its orbit around the Earth? Don’t be. Theoretically, it could happen, given enough time.

Over 4.6 billion years ago, Earth took shape from a spinning cloud of dust and gas surrounding the young sun. Tiny particles within this cloud collided and clumped together, driven by gravity and ...