For more than sixty years, a tiny asteroid has been moving in step with Earth, hidden from view until recently. Astronomers now confirm that this small body, named 2025 PN7, is traveling in a special ...

They are asteroids, which — from our point of view on Earth — appear to be orbiting our planet like our permanent moon does. However ... Fuente Marcos told Live Science in an email. The newly ...

The newly discovered asteroid is expected to tag along on the Earth's path around the sun for another 60 years.

New research suggests that the interior of the Moon’s far side may be colder than the side constantly facing Earth, adding ...

Researchers are discussing 2025 PN7, a small celestial body that's following a similar orbital path to our planet's without being gravitationally tied to Earth ...

Scientists have discovered a previously unknown quasi-moon that’s been shadowing Earth’s orbit for decades, undetected, and will likely remain there for a few decades more. The quasi-moon, named 2025 ...

China's Chang'e 6 mission returned the first-ever far-side lunar samples, revealing new insights into the moon's interior.

The far side, with its thicker crust and rugged, cratered terrain, appears to have been less volcanically active than the near side.

Lunar minerals generate the rust mineral hematite when bombarded with high-energy oxygen particles, experiments show.

"The profile of the occultation was most consistent with it being a new satellite — a new moon — going around Quaoar." ...

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has provided the first direct measurements of the chemical and physical ...