Earth's orbit will capture a bus-sized asteroid later this month, giving us a second moon for about two months.

A newly discovered asteroid, also referred to as a mini-moon or second moon, is set to enter Earth's orbit temporarily this fall.

Texas first passed a law in 1997 that allows astronauts to vote if they will be in space during early voting and on Election ...

A recently-discovered asteroid will soon become a mini-moon of Earth, and it will hang around until Thanksgiving.

The “Journey to the Sun” series at Southern Illinois University Carbondale will discuss NASA’s solar probes. The series ...

Europe's Hera mission to the asteroid Dimorphos, which NASA's DART probe hit in September 2022, has arrived at its launch ...

Once in the correct area, the rocket would begin to hurtle back down to Earth and land on a soft pad, thus saving the egg ...

A temporary “mini-moon” will whirl around Earth for about two months as our planet’s gravity captures a small asteroid in its orbit.

Iron carried in clouds of Saharan dust blown across the Atlantic Ocean is increasingly available to tiny life forms the further it travels.

Traditionally, eclipse maps have been constructed from the assumption that the Moon is a perfect sphere and that all ...

You might think of asteroids as just rocks of various sizes floating around in space. But they’re vastly more complex than ...

New infrared image highlights star formation triggered by merger-in-progress. Arp 107, a pair of interacting galaxies, shines ...