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

Wind from Earth is causing the Moon to rust - New findings indicate a long-term material exchange between Earth and the Moon ...

Astronomers have found yet another quasi-moon companion of Earth in its orbit around the Sun believed to be a chunk of our ...

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

University of Kent researchers successfully grew tea plants in simulated lunar soil, proving astronauts could grow their own ...

Earth has a newly discovered—albeit temporary—companion in its journey around the sun. In research published this month in ...

Earth is the only planet in our solar system with a single moon, making it a rare phenomenon for a planet of its kind.

Astronomers are considering blowing up the “city killer” asteroid, estimated to have a small chance of crashing onto the Moon ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 currently has a 4% chance of smashing into the Moon in about seven years. Astronomers are already working ...

NASA could soon trial a new defence strategy to prevent a giant asteroid hurtling towards the Moon and posing a huge risk to astronauts. It comes after NASA intentionally used a spacecraft to bump ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4, once perceived as a threat, is no longer on a collision course with the planet Earth. However, there is a ...