Mini moons are just asteroids that get trapped between the Earth and the moon's gravitational pull, so they can't pass us by ...

Earth's gravity has captured a new temporary companion, Asteroid 2024 PT5, which is roughly the size of a bus. The mini moon ...

China has taken a step forward in its ambitious plan to land astronauts on the moon by 2030 – unveiling the specially ...

An annual astrological phenomenon - which will be visible to the naked eye - is just around the corner, and stargazers are ...

Each Monday, I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead. This coming week includes a naked-eye comet ...

The LUNA Gravity-offloading System (aka Puppeteer) is being designed in Europe as a means to simulate lunar gravity ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The two astronauts stuck at the International Space Station since June welcomed their new ride home ...

Near-Earth objects (NEOs) that move in horseshoe-shaped paths can come close to our planet at low speeds. During these times, ...

Mars and the Moon are the only two places Prof Cox could imagine seeing anybody visit and begin to build a permanent presence in his lifetime. Despite asteroids the size of stadiums hurtling through ...

Jared Isaacman, who made the first commercial spacewalk, says his Polaris program aims to speed up human colonization of ...

Did Earth’s COVID-19 Lockdown Impact The Moon? The global lockdowns during the Corornavirus pandemic in 2020 may have had ...

Scientists call such phenomena mini-moons. The asteroid was found by a group called ATLAS, which stands for Asteroid ...