A mini moon that will bid farewell to Earth soon may in fact be a small hunk of the big moon — the one that has loomed far ...

Astronomers at the Complutense University of Madrid first spotted this intriguing event using a powerful telescope in ...

November's full moon, known as the Beaver Moon, is the last supermoon of 2024. Here's when it peaks and why it's called the ...

For the past couple of weeks, Earth's orbit has been home to a "mini-moon" the size of a city bus. The celestial object is ...

The first lunar samples from the moon’s far side differ in some interesting ways from those collected from the near side, ...

Researchers analyzed lunar soil brought back by China's Chang'e-6, the first spacecraft to return with a haul of rocks and ...

New research explores if the moon was captured by Earth or formed by a collision. Scientists weigh theories, analyzing lunar ...

The final supermoon of 2024, the Beaver Moon of November, thrilled skywatchers around the world as it ushered in the weekend ...

New research shows that volcanoes erupted on the far side of the moon billions of years ago, mirroring activity on the near ...

November's Beaver Moon -- a supermoon -- comes within about 225,000 miles of Earth on Thursday. It won't reach its full lunar ...

Skywatchers will be able to enjoy one final, spectacular full moon tonight before winter's chill sets in for the next few ...

China's Chang'e-6 robotic spacecraft in June made history by retrieving the first surface samples from the far side of the ...