A mini-moon is a “temporarily captured orbiter” if it completes at least one full orbit of the Earth before returning to its ...

This time next year, NASA plans to send its first crewed mission to the moon. NPR visited the facility to find out how the ...

Scientists at Purdue University and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) suggest Ceres is very icy and might have once been a ...

Technically a “temporarily captured object,” 2024 PT5 is a near-Earth asteroid and Earth’s newest mini-moon. This 11-meter ...

Once in a mini-moon. You won't be able to see the 2024 PT5 asteroid when it hitches a ride in the moon's orbit of Earth starting today — not with your average backyard telescope — but that doesn't ...

Three significant new features have been added to Google Maps to enable users to explore the globe more fully and observe how ...

But asteroids aren't inherently menacing. They're just ancient objects, formed early in our solar system's history, that ...

Since the first sighting of the first-discovered and largest asteroid in our solar system was made in 1801 by Giuseppe Piazzi, astronomers and planetary scientists have pondered the make-up of this ...

Children with Down’s syndrome have a 150-fold increased risk of developing leukaemia than those without the condition. Now, ...

The mini-moon is actually an asteroid about the size of a school bus. It will be trapped in Earth's gravity for about two ...

Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS will have a close encounter with the sun today (Sept. 27) here's how to make the most of comet ...

Earth has got a new mini-moon for the next couple of days and it has fascinated people across social media. Albeit, it might ...