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

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

Heat from tidal forces remelted the Moon’s crust, says new reesarch, which may explain why the Moon is older than some ...

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

Scientists have shown that a "remelting event" more than 4.3 billion years ago "reset" the internal clock of most lunar rocks ...

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

No other space program before or since Apollo has placed such devices on the Moon. Apollo missions returned 382 kilograms (842 pounds) of Moon rocks to Earth. These samples, analyzed by ...

The moon has both a South and North Pole, but just how cold are they? For context, Antarctica's coastal temperatures average ...

Asteroids are serious business. Just ask dinosaurs. Yes, they're no longer here. A space rock with a diameter of just a few ...

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 ...

Firefly Aerospace and NASA are targeting mid-January for the first Blue Ghost mission to the far side of the Moon.