Sifting through the first-ever rock samples collected from the far side of the Moon, scientists in China have unearthed a ...

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A collision with a roughly 96-kilometer asteroid would guarantee global extinction, and programs like NASA’s DART test plus ...

A Spelunker Thought She Found Trash in a Cave. It Was Actually Evidence of a Lost Civilization. Four friends posed for a ...

Earth has a temporary new companion, NASA confirms asteroid 2024 PT5 has entered orbit, acting as a mini-moon. Not permanent, ...

Traditional mining expertise plus space startup innovation will equal the winning formula for lunar resource extraction.

Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) was discovered early this year by one of the telescopes on — you guessed it — Mount Lemmon, where ...

The asteroid isn’t a second moon, instead it is a quasi-satellite that is trailing the Earth’s orbit around the sun. Unlike ...

The universe has quasi-moons, mini-moons, and moonlets, but no official definition of what counts as a moon.

Flashes of light seen in the sky in old astronomical photographs may reveal the presence of reflective, satellite-like ...

Astronomers using data from the W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea in Hawaiʻi Island have identified a rare, ancient ...

Unlike the familiar Moon, 2025 PN7 does not orbit Earth. Instead, it travels around the Sun along a path that closely ...