A whole population of 'minimoons' - tiny natural satellites - may be quietly circling near Earth, scientists now believe, after discovering a second Moon-origin rock drifting close to our planet ...

Most of the time, the full moon isn't perfectly full. We always see the same side of the moon, but part of it is in shadow, due to the moon's rotation. Only when the moon, Earth and the sun are ...

The first samples of moon dust brought back to Earth for more than 50 years are in the UK - being studied by scientists in Milton Keynes. "It really humbles me to think that I am one of the seven ...

May's full moon will arrive May 12 ... with the meteors traveling at about 40.7 miles per second into Earth's atmosphere," NASA said. The best time to see them is during the hours right before ...