The Artemis program aims to land humans on the moon for the first time since the Apollo missions managed to achieve the feat ...

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 temporary “mini-moon” will whirl around Earth for about two months as our planet’s gravity captures a small asteroid in its ...

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

Asteroid will come close enough to Earth to temporarily enter its orbit at the end of the month, a phenomenon dubbed as "mini ...

Detectors inside Artemis I’s Orion capsule show how much radiation exposure its mannequins underwent and how effective a ...

Multiple bullets containing a tiny spectrometer could be shot into the lunar soil by an astronaut or rover, allowing analysis ...

Medically evacuating an astronaut from space is difficult and expensive, and a new model predicts that one in three ...

Though the mini-moon will only be in Earth’s orbit for about two months, it’ll stay close to the planet for a few months, ...

You can see the astroid, named 2024 PT5, for a short time before it heads on its way.

In just over one week’s time, Earth will gain a new celestial companion that will stay for two months in the planet’s ...

A moon tree is landing in Pittsburgh's Riverview Park in front of the Allegheny Observatory. Seeds of multiple tree species ...