After sending chills down their spines with its brief stint as the highest-risk space object ever recorded, a near-Earth ...

YR4 won't hit Earth, but scientists now estimate a 4% chance it could strike the Moon, possibly affecting space missions.

For the first time in history, scientists have analyzed actual samples from the lunar farside—thanks to China’s Chang’e-6 ...

While millions of Earthlings watched the "blood moon" total lunar eclipse on March 13-14, the private Blue Ghost spacecraft caught an ultra-rare view of Earth blocking out the sun from the surface of ...

The astronauts aboard the Apollo 8 lunar mission became the first humans to directly view the far side of the moon during ...

YR4, first discovered in December 2024, triggered a first-ever notification from the International Asteroid Warning Network ...

The Blue Ghost lunar lander, operated by Firefly Aerospace from Texas, became the first commercial spacecraft to image an ...

The potential collision of YR4 with the Moon may lead to the formation of new meteoroids, as the collision may create a large ...

The permanently shadowed regions of the Earth's Moon could shelter microbial lifeforms, according to new research.

A future Moon base is closer to reality than ever before. With missions like Artemis 3 planned for 2026 and a lunar outpost ...

Late last year, a newly discovered asteroid caused quite a stir when initial observations revealed a greater than 1% chance ...

NASA says the chances of an asteroid dubbed ‘2024 YR4’ hitting the lunar surface have doubled since February. The odds of an ...