The European Space Agency's Hera mission will set off from Cape Canaveral on 7 October on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. It will ...

Earth acquired a temporary mini moon, 2024 PT5, detected by astronomers. NASA will monitor its path, as it orbits for nearly two months before departing in late November, with a potential return in ...

Any time you see a headline about an asteroid heading towards the planet, you can relax. Big and small asteroids fly by Earth ...

A second moon has officially entered Earth’s orbit — sort of. Although it’s being called a “mini-moon,” the object is ...

A second moon has officially entered Earth’s orbit — sort of. Although it’s being called a “minimoon,” it’s actually an ...

The terminator sweeps across the Moon, Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS continues to wow, and Jupiter reaches a stationary point in ...

On Sept. 29, Asteroid 2024 PT5 entered Earth’s gravitational pull. PT5 will orbit in a horseshoe shape, meaning it won’t ...

ESA’s Hera mission will study a rock called Dimorphos, which was blasted by NASA, to work out how successful that approach ...

You may have heard about Earth's "mini moon." It arrived in Earth's orbit this past weekend and is expected to keep our moon some company for about two months.

Sept. 29, Earth captured a new "mini-moon" called 2024 PT5. The bus-size asteroid is expected to orbit our planet for 57 days ...

Robin George Andrews, author of "How to Kill an Asteroid," joins The Excerpt to discuss how scientists are working to ...

On Sunday, September 29, our planet captured the tiny asteroid named 2024 PT5, turning it into a temporary mini-moon.