Earth is saying goodbye to an asteroid that has been a "mini-moon" of sorts since late September, when it joined the planet's ...

Exploring lunar samples from the far side's South Pole-Aitken Basin, researchers have uncovered key differences in volcanic ...

After analyzing the sample brought by Chang'e-6, researchers found that the moon’s oldest and deepest crater on its far side ...

Earth is about to bid farewell to its temporary celestial companion as asteroid 2024 PT5 prepares to depart our orbit on ...

The asteroid 2024 PT5 will leave Earth on Nov. 25 after visiting, but new analysis shows this temporary "second moon" may ...

The age of Mare Orientale could act like a lunar Rosetta stone for dating the age of the moon's other giant impact basins.

The reason for this similarity is simple: We almost always see the same surface when we stare at the moon, the same patterns of craters and cavities, thanks to the way that the moon moves, rotating ...

Earth will say goodbye to an asteroid that has acted as a mini moon for the past two months. But astronomers say it will ...

Spacecraft and telescopes have provided us with ample evidence that there may be large deposits of frozen water trapped in the perpetual darkness of the craters ... to the moon," says Western ...

Scientists release first analyses of samples from China’s Chang’e-6 mission, which landed on the lunar far side.

The first surface samples retrieved from the dark side of the moon show that there used to be erupting volcanoes there, just ...

Li said the new findings reveal over 1 billion years of volcanic eruptions on the lunar far side. One piece of volcanic rock ...