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 ...

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

New research explores if the moon was captured by Earth or formed by a collision. Scientists weigh theories, analyzing lunar ...

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

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

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

A Chinese mission to test resource technologies at the moon's south pole is taking shape — and may even include a humanoid ...

The space superpowers set to land astronauts on the Moon — the U.S. and China — should forge a lunar peace pact protecting ...

As the moon orbits Earth, it cycles through eight distinct phases. The four primary phases of the moon (new moon, first quarter, full moon, last quarter) occur about a week apart, with the full ...

The first surface samples retrieved from the dark side of the moon show that there used to be erupting volcanoes there, just ...

Well after Halloween has come and gone, autumn sets a spooky, mystical tone, thanks to the sun’s trip through Scorpio, the ...