The object, the latest “quasi-moon” detected by astronomers, could be with us for almost another 60 years. By Robin George Andrews The Earth stands alone in the solar system as a habitable world, as ...

Bull ants navigate through dark forests using the moon as a compass and can even predict where it will move when hidden from view.

For decades, astronomers have tracked a small group of space rocks that share Earth’s orbit around the sun. Among them, Asteroid 2016 HO3 and the well-known quasi-satellite Kamo’oalewa have sparked ...

New research suggests that Theia, the object whose collision with Earth is theorized to have caused the formation of the moon, came from closer to the sun. Artist’s impression of the collision between ...