The Earth is getting a second 'mini-moon' later this month, but it'll only last from Sept. 29 to Nov. 25, researchers say.

Earth will soon have a visitor — and not of the extraterrestrial kind. Astronomers found a small asteroid that will orbit our ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is scheduled to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth on Sept. 24, 2023. Learn more about it in this NASA explainer. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is scheduled to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

Minuscule meteoroids slamming into the lunar surface could be kicking up most of the atoms that make up the lunar exosphere.

Joel Lapointe was scouring the Cote-Nord region of Quebec for potential camping spots when he saw something unusual. There ...

An unassuming Google Maps user might have found an ancient asteroid impact site hidden in the mountains of Canada.

A man planning a camping trip using Google Maps ran across a uniquely curved spherical pit in Quebec. It may be an ancient ...

Chang’e-6 orbiter turns up at Sun-Earth Lagrange point after moon sampling mission The orbiter for China’s Chang’e-6 lunar ...

China's Chang'e 5 mission brought back evidence that the moon had erupting volcanoes just 120 million years ago.

Researchers at the University of Melbourne have developed a promising blood test for early Alzheimer's disease detection by measuring potassium isotopes in blood serum, offering a potential ...

The asteroid impact in Mexico left deposits similar to those made by other asteroids from the outer solar system.