For the past couple of weeks, Earth's orbit has been home to a "mini-moon" the size of a city bus. The celestial object is ...
On September 29, 2024, Earth captured a tiny asteroid named 2024 PT5, turning it into a temporary mini-moon. It won't be around much longer.
Earth’s newly captured mini-moon 2024 PT5 will depart in November, highlighting the fascination with transient asteroids.
The dark skies during a new moon ... to Earth's orbit around the sun, it doesn't block out the sun on every orbit, hence why not every new moon results in a solar eclipse, according to NASA.
NASA is planning to send a drone to a nearby moon that will hunt for alien life. The Dragonfly probe will explore Titan, Saturn’s largest moon – around 745 million miles from Earth. That ...
Experts around the world have marvelled at how little Indian Space Research Organisation’s (Isro) Moon, Mars and solar ...
The Trump and Musk alliance could speed up the next human moon landing and Starship's first mission to Mars.
NASA’s claim that its third flight, Artemis III, could see an American woman set foot somewhere near the Moon’s south pole, ...
Elon Musk's company has already launched more than 100 spacecraft this year, and it is aiming to send up around 40 more.
For the average Earthling, touring space may still be the stuff of science fiction, but in 2000, Popular Science published a ...
Have you ever worried about the moon getting lonely in its terrestrial orbit? Well, worry no more. The moon has found a friend!
AstroForge’s CEO Matt Gialich wants to mine asteroids for platinum, aiming to turn space’s untapped wealth into a new ...