It's largely agreed that the moon was created around 4.5 billion years ago when a protoplanet collided with early molten ...

Kamo'oalewa was first discovered back in 2016, but it’s a bit odd because instead of orbiting the Sun, this one orbits Earth.

Fragments of a rare type of meteorite have been found in the sample of material brought back from the lunar far side by China ...

These rare samples, uncovered on the moon by China’s Chang’e 6 mission, might help to reveal secrets of how the solar system ...

A massive crater hidden beneath the Atlantic seafloor has been confirmed as the result of an asteroid strike from 66 million ...

A small asteroid named 2024 PN7 is moving close to Earth, sparking false claims about a second moon — here’s what scientists actually say.

New research reveals the Moon's colossal South Pole-Aitken basin was formed by an asteroid striking from the north, not the ...

A newly discovered space rock zoomed safely by Earth on Wednesday (Oct. 15) at only about a quarter of the average distance to the moon. The asteroid, called 2025 TP5, sailed by our planet at 4:09 p.m ...

Earth has a near miss—twice—after two small asteroids seemingly passed alarmingly close to the planet, less than two days apart, one of them going completely unnoticed until hours after it had already ...

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Be on the lookout for October's Full Harvest Moon rising tonight, appearing slightly bigger and brighter than your average full moon.>> Download the WESH 2 appWhy it's also called the Harvest MoonThis ...