On 25 June, Li Chunlai watched eagerly as a capsule carrying the first pieces of the far side of the Moon landed on Earth.

Earlier this year, the number of moons orbiting Earth temporarily doubled, admittedly from the low starting point of "one".

Some nights when we look up at the moon, it is full and bright; sometimes it is just a sliver of silvery light. These changes in appearance are the phases of the moon. As the moon orbits Earth ...

Saturn will sidle up to the moon this weekend, as the pair make a close approach of each other in the cold night sky.

A former professional boxer has claimed there is no proof that the Earth is round - and once revealed 'evidence' to prove it.

Rocks returned by China’s Chang’e-6 mission suggest volcanic activity just 2.8 billion years ago but lack telltale heat-generating elements.

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Earth's second moon is leaving just before the holidays ... may have originated from the moon—just a brief look at the vast number of craters on the moon helps us to imagine how that might ...