It’s the most studied object in the sky — and it’s still full of secrets. From strange metal structures under the surface to mysterious glass beads formed by ancient explosions, the Moon is hiding ...

‘Iron rust’ found in lunar soil challenges what we know about Moon’s surface - Minerals formed during large-scale meteorite impacts may explain strange magnetism on lunar soil ...

China’s Chang’e-6 mission, the first sample return mission to the far side of the Moon last year, made a fascinating discovery. While poring over the returned lunar samples, which arrived on Earth in ...

Astronomers have found a space rock that has been quietly hanging around Earth for decades: a tiny asteroid named 2025 PN7. This so-called “quasi-moon” isn’t a true moon or a mini-moon, because it ...

The rare samples, uncovered by China’s Chang’e-6 mission, might help to reveal secrets of how the Solar System evolved. Sifting through the first-ever rock samples collected from the far side of the ...

"What we need is definitive measurements of the ice content." Earth's moon is a treasure trove of resources. Space agencies around the world are planning missions to access and use lunar volatiles, ...

Earth's quasi-moons are not actually moons, but temporary asteroids that eventually leave Earth’s orbit JPL-Caltech/NASA A new "quasi-moon" named 2025 PN7 has been discovered, according to a ...

The recently spotted asteroid 2025 PN7 appears to be the source of the rumor mill about Earth's supposed second moon. Earth has several quasi-moons that get their name due to the fact that they ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — You may have heard claims that NASA scientists confirmed the Earth has a second moon, but that statement isn't totally true. NASA did confirm there is a newly discovered ...

You may have heard a lot of online chatter about Earth's two moons recently, but that doesn't quite get the discovery right. Earth still only has one true natural satellite — our 2,159-mile-wide moon ...

Roughly four and a half billion years ago the planet Theia slammed into Earth, destroying Theia, melting large fractions of Earth’s mantle and ejecting a huge debris disk that later formed the moon.