The Moon is rusting — and it’s Earth’s fault. Scientists have found that oxygen particles blown from Earth to the Moon can ...

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

Asteroid 2024 PT5 is considered Earth's mini-moon and may be a key target for potential asteroid mining operations.

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

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

Artemis III is planned for 2027. If it stays on schedule, that's the mission that will put humans back on the moon for the first time in 55 years. The crew plans to touch down in one of 13 planned ...

After multiple delays, the first crewed Artemis flight around the moon could be less than 20 weeks away, NASA officials said ...

The first Artemis mission lasted 25 days and saw the launch of an uncrewed spacecraft in November 2022. It saw a spacecraft travel around the Moon and re-enter the Earth's atmosphere.

The Earth stands alone in the solar system as a habitable world, as far as we know. But that doesn’t mean we don’t get visitors, most often in the form of (usually harmless) asteroids. Some even ...

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

Our planet has apparently had a small companion that went undetected for decades. What took so long to find it and why was it hidden?

NASA announced the Artemis II mission to ferry astronauts around the moon for the first time in more than 50 years, could ...