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 ...

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.

And the M-Argo satellite, with a launch planned for 2025, will study the shape, mass and surface minerals of a ...

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

Earth captures second moon for a few weeks Asteroid 2024 PT5 part of the Arjuna asteroid belt Asteroid 2024 PT5 will not be ...

The asteroid will pass by our planet at a distance of 1.01 million miles—about four times the distance between Earth and the ...

A SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft caught up with the International Space Station and moved in for docking Sunday.

The mini moon is actually an asteroid about the size of a school bus at 33 feet (10 meters). When it whizzes by Earth on ...

The Earth’s “Second Moon” will be visible tonight reportedly also in Greece. Its first appearance will be after 22:45 local time. The “Mini Moon” will be in the sky until 18:43 on Friday, November 25, ...

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