Thus it never truly became a second moon to the Earth. The asteroid is only the second one ever discovered to have lunar origins; scientists predict there may be many more. "As telescopes become ...

With the building-sized asteroid racing through space at 17km per second ... it collided with the moon. Astronomers have explained what the consequences might be for Earth. David Rankin, an ...

Mr Kareta and his team believe it may have been ejected from the Moon's surface during ... This is only the second known lunar fragment spotted in near-Earth space. The first, called Kamo'oalewa ...

The Artemis 2 megarocket set to launch NASA's next astronauts to the moon in 2026 is almost completely assembled. The giant ...

The next new moon will occur on Monday, May 26 at 11:02 p.m. EDT (0302 GMT May 27). A new moon occurs when the moon is directly between Earth and ... as per the second definition of the third ...

An asteroid that experts feared could hit Earth is no longer on track for the planet – but it still has a slim chance of striking the moon, new research says. The 2024 YR4 asteroid is nearly the ...

Within days, the likelihood plummeted to effectively zero, and has a 0.00078% chance of hitting Earth in 2032 at the time of writing. However, there remains a risk for the moon — not that the ...

Known as the flower moon, May's full moon will reach peak illumination at 12:56 p.m. ET on Monday, May 12, according to the Old Farmer's Almanac. May's full moon will be a micromoon, which is when the ...

This process, essential for recycling carbon dioxide and maintaining stable temperatures, may have been key to Earth’s habitability. Unlike Earth, the moon’s cooling crust formed a thick layer ...