An asteroid called 2020 CD3 was bound to Earth for several years before leaving the planet’s orbit in 2020 and another called 2022 NX1 became a mini-moon of Earth in 1981 and 2022 and will return ...

Over 4.6 billion years ago, Earth took shape from a spinning cloud of dust and gas surrounding the young sun. Tiny particles ...

The Earth had recently formed (4,600 million years ... Some models suggest that a second moon, just a few hundred kilometers across, formed past the far side and then slowly approached the moon ...

Chinese researchers analyzed the first-ever soil samples returned from the far side of the moon, but further samples will be ...

Hayne explained that on Earth, silica tends to only appear in large quantities ... Burns and his colleagues, meanwhile, are getting a second moon shot of sorts. The astrophysicist previously ...

Soil and rocks returned from the moon's far side suggest it may be drier than the side constantly facing Earth ...

No lunar glow, no "Man in the Moon" – just an endless, dark sky. If Earth's companion of 4.5 billion-years suddenly vanished without a trace, what would happen to our home planet? Article ...