Scientists think a small rock discovered near Earth last August was hurled into space by an ancient impact on the lunar surface. By Becky Ferreira For a few months last fall, a school-bus-size space ...

The moon’s violent history is written across its face. Over billions of years, space rocks have punched craters into its surface, flinging out debris. Now, for the first time, astronomers may have ...

Earth has a new moon - or at least a 'quasi-moon', a new study has revealed. A quasi-moon is a space rock that circles the Earth, but is gravitationally bound by the sun. This quasi-moon, called 2023 ...

The most famous of Earth's so-called quasi-satellites not only comes from the moon, a research team has now apparently even succeeded in locating the crater that gave rise to the object called (469219 ...

China's Long March 3B rocket lifted off around 1:31 a.m. local time from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center carrying the Tianwen-2 spacecraft, which over the next year will approach the small ...

China launched a mission to retrieve asteroid samples. The Tianwen-2 robotic probe will visit asteroid 469219 Kamoʻoalewa and comet 311P/PanSTARRS. Kamoʻoalewa is between 40m and 100m in size. China ...