NASA still views the moon as a stepping stone to Mars, even though Elon Musk has dismissed Earth's nearest neighbor as "a ...

The moon's ascending node (the point in the sky where its orbit crosses the ecliptic from south to north) is moving westward ...

The space rock is heading in our direction at some 18,700 miles per hour, according to the space agency's data.

Understand the moon phases and you can wager a pretty good guess for when the next full moon is no matter where we are in the ...

THE moon is just a chunk of the Earth and not mainly part of an ancient planet as previously thought, scientists claim. Experts had believed our satellite was created when hypothetical body Theia ...

A colossal impact billions of years ago carved out the canyons that rival the most breathtaking features here on Earth in a ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) A small near-Earth asteroid, 2024 PT5, may originate from the Moon, as its reflectance spectrum matches lunar samples but not known asteroid types. This suggests ...

Oxygen isotope identity of the Earth and Moon with implications for the formation of the Moon and source of volatiles. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 2024; 121 (52) DOI: 10.1073 ...

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander, a private spacecraft hired by NASA to take experiments to the moon, got a rare ...

A chunk of space rock that visited near Earth's orbit last year was widely referred to as a "mini-moon." Turns out the ...

The prevailing theory had been that the moon was the result of a collision between early Earth and the protoplanet Theia. New measurements indicate that the moon formed from material ejected from ...