After a four-week hiatus, NASA has republished a document seeking ideas for how to repurpose a pair of smallsats for an asteroid mission, removing many technical details about those spacecraft in ...

No need for farewells, 2024 PT5 may drop in again in 2055 Everybody be on their best behavior: Earth has a visitor. 2024 PT5 ...

Crustal dripping occurs when dense fragments of Earth's crust detach and sink into the semi-fluid mantle below. This process leads to surface subsidence, forming basins and reshaping the landscape.

An asteroid named 2024 RH45 is set to fly past Earth today at 10:24 pm. Measuring 110 feet, roughly the size of a commercial ...

To qualify as a mini-moon, an asteroid must be relatively close to Earth, within 4.5 million kilometers, and travel at a ...

Mini-moon will not complete a full orbit. Instead, it will experience a slight gravitational pull from Earth before ...

Earth's natural satellite—the moon—is currently welcoming a temporary “mini-moon” named 2024 PT5. What is the mini moon? Why ...

Asteroids are ripe for mining. Some contain gold or platinum. Others could help make rocket fuel. When they're mini-moons, that's a prime opportunity.

NASA is closely monitoring these asteroids as they travel through space. This event simply showcases the many intriguing ...

Europe is circling back to Dimorphos—the asteroid that NASA had pushed off course. Europe's space agency is launching the ...

On Sunday, Sept. 29, Earth captured a new "minimoon" called 2024 PT5. The bus-size asteroid is expected to orbit our planet ...

Here’s the deal: On Sept. 29 Earth’s gravity snagged a “mini moon” and pulled it into our orbit. This second moon is ...