A Chinese probe is set for a historic touchdown on asteroid Kamoʻoalewa, which may have been blasted away from Earth’s Moon millions of years ago after a violent impact. China’s Tianwen-2 spacecraft ...

Over the next several hundred million years, Earth could face numerous unexpected consequences, all due to the distance slowly yet steadily developing between the planet and its only moon. In what is ...

Every time I see the moon in the sky, it makes me happy. Our natural satellite is so familiar it’s easy to take it for granted, but in fact it’s an amazing sight. Much of its history is written on its ...

The moon has been bathed in solar wind for billions of years, but the two hemispheres are struck by solar wind of different speeds and energies. Now, research based on China's Chang'e-6 samples ...

A new image of an asteroid, referred to as a “quasi-moon,” has been released CNSA China’s Tianwen-2 spacecraft reached a “quasi-moon,” a small asteroid orbiting the Sun and close to Earth, after a ...

A new study suggests spacecraft exhaust could quickly contaminate the moon's most scientifically valuable regions, potentially masking ancient clues about how life began on Earth. Researchers say ...

Believe it or not, it actually is just a coincidence — and a happy one at that. The Moon and Sun have virtually the same angular size in our sky because the Sun is about 400 times wider than the Moon, ...