Later this month, an asteroid called 2024 PT5 will be joining Earth's orbit, becoming a mini-moon. The mini-moon will be in ...

Hera and its two cubesats arrived at their launch site in Florida in early September following a transatlantic flight from Germany, with a stop in Ireland. The mission's launch window opens on Oct. 7 ...

The asteroid was discovered in August and is set to become a mini-moon, spinning around Earth in a horseshoe shape for about ...

Asteroids from the Earth pass by all the time but we are expecting a friendly visitor staying around for the next couple ...

It won't be there forever, but Earth will have a second moon when a small asteroid begins to orbit the planet later this ...

A tiny asteroid named 2024 PT5 will start orbiting the earth on Sept. 29, 2024. According to Space.com, this newest moon will ...

The resulting visualizations show something never seen before: the true, time-varying shape of the Moon’s shadow, with the ...

We are all familiar with our one Moon but other planets have different numbers of moons; Mercury has none, Jupiter has 95 and ...

This new floating rock is only expected to orbit the Earth once, beginning its trip Sept. 29 before breaking off from its ...

Three and a half decades later, we find ourselves reporting on an industry that has grown and flourished beyond anything we ...

The mirrors for NASA's Near-Earth Object Surveyor space telescope are being installed and aligned, and work on other ...