Two immense canyons on the moon's far side that rival Earth's Grand Canyon were produced by a cataclysmic collision nearly ...

PT5, a near-Earth object discovered last year, has captivated scientists with its potential lunar origins. Likely ejected ...

Despite predictions that the asteroid might become a temporary mini-moon whirling around Earth, the space rock maintained a horseshoe orbit that brought it close, but it never actually entered ...

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

Astronomers can’t even say right now if Asteroid 2024 Y4 will come anywhere near Earth. Some projections show it passing the planet in 2032 at a distance farther away than the moon. Many ...

Scientists used photos and data from Nasa’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter to map the area and calculate the path of debris.

More specifically, The space rock's spectra most closely matched moon samples brought to Earth by the Apollo 14 mission, leading scientists to posit that it may have originated from lunar highlands.

Last year, astronomers on the hunt for potentially dangerous near-Earth ... this asteroid is hanging around in our celestial neighborhood. This object appears to be a piece of the Moon, which ...

The asteroid came closest to Earth on Christmas Day — passing within roughly 500,000 miles of Earth, about twice the distance of the moon. It was discovered two days later. Chodas said ...