Asteroid 2024 PT5, which almost became a temporary mini-moon to Earth, was recently found to be a broken-off part of the moon ...

NASA officials said what Juno spotted was 'the most powerful volcanic event ever recorded on the most volcanic world in our ...

After the space agency canceled its VIPER rover, an empty space was available on a private spacecraft that will still head to ...

An asteroid that orbited near Earth for a few months as a mini-moon may be a chunk of the moon that was blasted off by an impact thousands of years ago.

The incoming object created an impact basin and sent streams of rocks hurtling like missiles, NASA said. Within minutes, two ...

New research suggests that Earth's recent mini-moon might have originated as part of our actual moon long, long ago.

For a few months, Earth had a second moon — a tiny asteroid that may have been a piece of our own Moon ...

2024 PT5 is the second near-Earth asteroid scientists suspect was ejected from the moon's surface, the first being 469219 ...

A chunk of space rock that visited near Earth's orbit last year was widely called a "mini-moon," a nickname that was more ...

Two Grand Canyon-size features on the far side of the moon were likely formed in about 10 minutes after an unknown object ...