Asteroids are ripe for mining. Some contain gold or platinum. Others could help make rocket fuel. When they're mini-moons, ...

October's full moon will have some company this month now that a mini-moon is in Earth's orbit. Here's what you should know ...

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

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.

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

Following the suit demonstration, Yang Liwei, deputy chief designer of China's crewed space program and China's first ...

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

In the outer reaches of our Solar System, 5.7 billion kilometres from the Sun, lies the dwarf planet Pluto. Smaller than ...

The upcoming annular eclipse will block out only a small portion of the Sun, and almost no one will be able to see it.

Juice (Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer) mission made history with a daring lunar-Earth flyby and double gravity assist maneuver, a spaceflight first. As the spacecraft zipped past our Moon and home planet, ...

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

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