Earth's orbit will temporarily capture a mini moon — a tiny asteroid called Asteroid 2024 PT5. Local educators tell us ...

This fall, the Earth will have a temporary cosmic companion. Astronomers have discovered that a “mini moon" will orbit our ...

Here’s the deal: On Sept. 29 Earth’s gravity snagged a “mini moon” and pulled it into our orbit. This second moon is ...

Getting to the moon takes a lot of small steps, like Europe's new LUNA training facility. But it's not there yet. Next step: a moon gravity simulator.

Something strange happened when the Earth was gripped by the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020: the Moon got substantially ...

This month, Earth will briefly gain a second moon, a small asteroid known as 2024 PT5. You'll need some special equipment to ...

To qualify as a mini-moon, an asteroid must be relatively close to Earth, within 4.5 million kilometers, and travel at a ...

This October, the astronomy world will be abuzz with night-sky happenings, from a bright and potentially naked-eye-visible ...

Dealing with trash generated by humans on space missions sustainably has long been an issue. The Apollo landing sites on the ...

Oh, god, the whole world is going to think that I think that — and I’m from Florida, you know what I mean? This is a ...

"The most exciting prospect at the (Uranian) moons is that they could still host subsurface oceans at present.” ...

Mini-moon will not complete a full orbit. Instead, it will experience a slight gravitational pull from Earth before ...