Watching for changes in the Red Planet’s orbit over time could be a new way to detect passing dark matter. MIT physicists ...

The asteroid is expected to make a “horseshoe path” around Earth over the next two months, researchers wrote in a recent ...

Earth will have a second “mini-moon” in addition to its regular lunar companion for about two months starting on Sept. 29, ...

Starting next week an asteroid about the size of a school bus will be temporarily caught by the Earth’s gravity. It’s called ...

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Earth's orbit will capture a bus-sized asteroid later this month, giving us a second moon for about two months.

While Earth doesn’t have the twin suns of a “Galaxy Far, Far Away” it is soon expected to pick up another moon – at least for ...

The first rocket will ferry a lander and a sample-collecting ascender vehicle that will land on the rim of an unspecified ...

In a major boost to lunar exploration, Intuitive Machines has secured a $116.9 million contract from NASA to deliver six scientific instruments to the Moon's south pole in 2027. This Houston-based ...

Volcanoes were still erupting on the moon during Earth’s dinosaur age, new research suggests, much more recently than previously believed. Three tiny glass beads that were collected from the ...

The moon hasn't had a magnetic field for 4.36 billion years. That means it could hold fragments of the ancient Earth. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Today it’s dusty, crater-ridden and largely inert, but our moon has a fascinating geological history. The generally accepted theory is that it formed from a catastrophic impact between a ...