At the time, the Earth would have been far closer to the moon than it is today, making it perhaps twice as large in the lunar ...

What new technologies or methods can be developed for more efficient in-situ planetary subsurface analyses? This is what a recent study presented at the 56th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference ...

The discovery of 2024 PT5, a small, rocky body dubbed a "minimoon" during its discovery last year, hints at a hidden ...

A private lunar lander from Japan is now circling the moon, with just another month to go before it attempts a touchdown.

If you could choose to live forever, would you? This is the question at the centre of the short film W7éyle (Moon’s Wife) — a top-six finisher in this year’s ...

An alternate explanation that fits the evidence is that Vesta was once part of a planet – but which planet that might been ...

A surprising discovery on the Moon could provide crucial insight into the planet’s early history. The South Pole-Aitken Basin ...

Recent discoveries have challenged previous assumptions about the space near Earth, revealing a potential population of ...

Last year in August, the number of moons orbiting Earth temporarily doubled, admittedly from the low starting point of "one", ...

Crewmembers on upcoming Artemis missions could potentially return samples from the moon's mantle back to Earth, providing ...

A moon that resembles an iconic, fictional space station known to destroy planets may be a home for life beyond Earth.

A newly discovered space rock called 2024 PT5, nicknamed a “minimoon,” may be a fragment blasted off the Moon during a past ...