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 ...

In the final phase of the Jammu and Kashmir elections, an unprecedented number of women voters have turned out to cast their ...

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 ...

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 ...

A crater-rich dwarf planet named Ceres located in the main asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter was long thought to be composed of a materials mixture not dominated by water ice.

This fall, the Earth will have a temporary cosmic companion. Astronomers have discovered that a “mini moon" will orbit our ...

A mini-moon is an asteroid or space rock that enters Earth’s orbit and acts like a second, much smaller moon for a short time ...