A temporary “mini-moon” will whirl around Earth for about two months as our planet’s gravity captures a small asteroid in its orbit.

The Earth has a “second moon,” and it appears to have originated from the original moon. This additional moon is a near-Earth ...

Americans are famously fond of their guns. So it should come as no surprise that a team of NASA scientists has devised a way ...

after the larger crater, Mersenius E,' explained Noah Petro, a project scientist for the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) mission. LROC is a Nasa craft currently orbiting the moon to map ...

On March 4, 2022, a spent rocket casing hit the moon’s surface, causing a crater about 95 feet (29 ... affect the longevity of satellites in lunar orbit and possibly our ability to observe ...

Advertisement Scientists said the first Lunar Orbiter' s objectives had been realized -- to orbit a three-axis craft. The second objective, to photograph possible manned landing sites on the moon ...

As every sky-gazer knows, only one face of the moon is visible ... side bore many more craters and pockmarks than the visible face. That concept was first shaken by Lunar Orbiter 4, which mapped ...

Due to its tilt, some parts of the Moon's surface never see sunlight, allowing water ice to survive in some of its craters. When India's Chandrayaan-1 lunar orbiter passed over the north pole of the ...

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter discovered a new crater on the moon that's 33 feet in diameter — as wide as a 3-story building is tall. It could be the crash site of Russia's Luna-25 moon ...

A series of images sent by Chandrayaan-3 show the craters on the lunar ... the first images of the Moon taken by the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft, which entered lunar orbit on Saturday.