Our rocky satellite's real age is concealed by a "remelting" event that caused its surface to liquify, distorting the story ...

XS3, a small Apollo asteroid, safely passed Earth at a distance of 3.3 million kilometers on December 18, 2024. This close ...

A 2018 satellite photo shows the aptly named Deception Island, which was formed by a massive eruption 4,000 years ago and ...

A car-sized asteroid will pass at about half the distance between Earth and the moon tonight (Dec. 6), concluding a busy week ...

For the Apollo 8 astronauts, no message was more fitting to read to the estimated billion people listening than the ...

All but one of the Apollo program’s used lunar modules either crashed into the Moon’s surface or burned up in Earth’s atmosphere ... Snoopy was jettisoned into space as planned and should ...

The moon may be older than some scientists thought, according to a new study. It suggests that rock samples from the Apollo ...

Earth's "second moon" won't be sticking around for Thanksgiving, but just as many of us will on Thursday (Nov. 28), it seems the asteroid was paying a visit to its relatives.

NASA launched the last crew to land on the moon with the Apollo 17 mission. Three NASA astronauts flew to the moon that day: ...

Earth is about to bid farewell to its temporary celestial companion as asteroid 2024 PT5 prepares to depart our orbit on Monday, just before this year's Thanksgiving celebration.