A mini moon that will bid farewell to Earth soon may in fact be a small hunk of the big moon — the one that has loomed far ...

For the past couple of weeks, Earth's orbit has been home to a "mini-moon" the size of a city bus. The celestial object is ...

New research shows that volcanoes erupted on the far side of the moon billions of years ago, mirroring activity on the near ...

Earth may have had a ring made up of a broken asteroid over 400 million years ago, a study finds. The Saturn-like feature ...

China's Chang'e-6 robotic spacecraft in June made history by retrieving the first surface samples from the far side of the ...

The first lunar samples from the moon’s far side differ in some interesting ways from those collected from the near side, ...

Astronomers at the Complutense University of Madrid first spotted this intriguing event using a powerful telescope in ...

November's full moon, known as the Beaver Moon, is the last supermoon of 2024. Here's when it peaks and why it's called the ...

The final supermoon of 2024, the Beaver Moon of November, thrilled skywatchers around the world as it ushered in the weekend ...

Researchers analyzed lunar soil brought back by China's Chang'e-6, the first spacecraft to return with a haul of rocks and ...

For nearly 40 years, scientists have generally agreed that Earth's Moon formed from debris after a massive collision with our ...

New Yorkers are in for a celestial treat tonight, as November's Full Beaver Moon, the final supermoon of 2024, graces the ...