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 ...

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

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

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 ...

The full 'beaver moon' on Friday, November 15, concludes 2024's supermoon series, appearing larger and brighter in the sky.

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

The full moon this week will be a spectacular Beaver Supermoon—the last in a series of four supermoons this year. Here's how ...

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 ...

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