Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Eric Mack is a reporter covering science, sustainability and space. 2020 CD3 remains stationary in the image since it was being ...

All good things must come to an end. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. For a brilliant (albeit brief) period of time, Earth had two ...

Full moon is this Monday, March 9. As we gaze upon our faithful natural satellite, its orbital routine we have known since man or woman first paid attention to the night sky, we might feel reassured ...

The object, a car-size asteroid called 2020 CD3, won’t be here for long, and new telescopes will help us spot more of these objects. By Rebecca Boyle Earth gets a new moon most months, but this month, ...

Earth has acquired a second "mini-moon" about the size of a car, according to astronomers who spotted the object circling our planet. The mass -- roughly 6-11 feet in diameter -- was observed by ...

Tumbling through Earth's increasingly crowded orbit are about 5,000 satellites, half a million pieces of human-made debris and only one confirmed natural object: the moon. Now, astronomers working out ...

A new discovery suggests we are a little less alone in the cosmos than we might think. Astronomers at the Catalina Sky Survey in Tucson, Arizona took to Twitter February 25, 2020 to announce a new ...