The rover's 26th sample, known as "Silver Mountain," has textures "unlike anything we've seen before," NASA says.

The Earth's Grand Canyon took millions of years to carve, but the moon's grand canyons took about ten minutes.

Two canyons that splay out from a vast asteroid crater on the moon may have been quickly formed by chains of impacts that followed the initial one ...

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

Earth asteroid, gathering dust and rock from its surface, and returning the rare cache to our planet has been one of NASA’s ...

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

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 ...

The small near-Earth asteroid 2024 PT5 has been creating a buzz among researchers. Discovered last year with the help of a ...

This is because marketing for 2023’s Moon Festival event ended up aligning with the actual moon on December 5, 2023 when the first trailer debuted. While the moon came and went without a second ...

The moon is now considered a threatened heritage site, alongside 24 other earthly sites, because the lunar surface holds a significant number of artifacts with the potential to be destroyed amid ...

It appears to be composed of rock broken off from the moon's surface and ejected into space after a large impact. "We had a general idea that this asteroid may have come from the moon, but the ...

“Pluto and Charon are different — they’re smaller, colder and made primarily of rock and ice. When we accounted for the actual strength ... planet and its largest moon, either.