In the Northern Hemisphere, June 20 is the day on which the sun is highest in the sky, aka the summer solstice! This is the ...

The Tianwen 2 asteroid-comet probe lifted off on Tuesday (May 28), riding into the final frontier atop a Long March 3B rocket ...

A massive asteroid, expected to be larger than San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge, will pass close to Earth on June 5. Measuring between 1,017 and 2,264 feet, it is bigger than 97 per cent of ...

Countless shadowed craters line the terminator all the way down to the moon's southern pole, while the 54-mile-wide (87 km) ...

China has sent a probe on an ambitious mission to grab rocks from a near-Earth asteroid and return them to Earth before ...

A team of scientists may finally have the answer. The study suggests that the moon’s magnetic rocks could be the result of a ...

There have been proposed hypotheses as to how the Moon could have developed a core dynamo. For instance, a 2022 analysis ...

China’s Tianwen-2 mission has launched to explore an asteroid that may be a piece of the moon, as well as an active asteroid ...

A combination of a dynamo-generated magnetic field and massive impacts could explain the highly magnetized rocks in some lunar regions.

The mission builds on lessons from ispace’s previous lunar attempt in 2023, with upgraded systems for improved reliability ...

A massive impact may have sent a shockwave through the moon, jolting rocks just as a magnetic spike peaked and leaving behind ...