This week see many special celestial sights, from a bright comet and a solar eclipse to a bright Venus and the possibility of ...

The newer mapping method takes elevation on Earth and the moon’s topography into consideration. NASA has developed a process ...

Europe has embarked on the mission to put humans back on the moon with a new lunar simulator launched in Germany, French ...

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

Lofty goals. Also, unsurprisingly, not cheap. According to NASA, the VIPER project has cost $433m so far, well above its ...

A small asteroid, 2024 PT5, will spend the next two months alongside our planet as a mini moon before swooping back to deep ...

Earth's orbit will temporarily capture a mini moon - a tiny asteroid called Asteroid 2024 PT5. An astronomer tells whether we ...

Astrologers explain what to expect from the Earth's new "mini-Moon," aka asteroid 2024 PT5, including the dates that this new ...

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

Eclipse season is in full force as October rolls around, as the second of this fall’s two back-to-back eclipses serves as the ...

The Earth has a new companion for the next 2 months! A passing asteroid named 2024 PT5 has become gravitationally tethered to ...

The European Space Agency is preparing for future moon missions by opening a new training facility in Germany.