Some fear we’ll be buried in brimstone; others expect to be extinguished by A.I. But is there comfort to be found in our ...

The Blue Ghost lunar lander, built by the Texas-based company Firefly Aerospace for NASA, launched to space on Jan. 15, and ...

For a brief, but exciting, time last year, Earth had two moons. A small asteroid lingered close to our planet in its orbit ...

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.

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

Scientists think a small rock discovered near Earth last August was hurled into space by an ancient impact on the lunar surface.

FASHION Editor Clemmie Fieldsend is sick of seeing cartoon clothing on grown-ups and asks psychologist Emma Kenny why adults just can’t seem to get enough of the childish clobber. What do Moana ...

because the illuminated side of the moon is facing away from Earth, toward the sun. The moon is also in the sky during the day, and without its Earth-facing side illuminated by the sun ...

O ne of Earth’s seven quasi-moons has just got a new name: Asteroid 2004 GU9 is now known as Cardea, one of the Roman deities ...

Blue Ghost captured the Earth image, shown below, during its second engine burn — the first that must be successfully achieved in order to get to the moon, some 239,000 miles away. The ...

Last year, astronomers on the hunt for potentially dangerous near-Earth asteroids spotted something ... This object appears to be a piece of the Moon, which was broken off in a cataclysmic impact.