The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) spacecraft, barreling through our solar system, recently used Earth's gravity to ...
While short mini-moon events are relatively common, longer capture episodes are rare, occurring only about once every 10 to 20 years. Stargazers will need a telescope to catch a glimpse of this ...
LOS ANGELES — Earth is about to get a new neighbor in the form of an asteroid. But this one won’t be making an impact.
The installation of habitats, landing pads, equipment shelters, tall towers on the moon could be off to a shaky start.
You can see the astroid, named 2024 PT5, for a short time before it heads on its way.
An asteroid heading towards Earth is set to have an unusual fate: instead of smashing through our planet’s atmosphere, it’s ...
The three-quarter moon rose over Europe last week as serene and remote as ever, but dropping faster and faster through its gravitational field was a small, alien object: a metal sphere blazoned ...
NEW YORK – New York magazine says its highly regarded Washington correspondent, Olivia Nuzzi, is on leave after disclosing she violated the publication’s standards by having a personal relationship wi ...
Watching for changes in the Red Planet’s orbit over time could be a new way to detect passing dark matter. MIT physicists ...
A rare mini-moon, a small asteroid temporarily captured by Earth's gravity, will briefly orbit the planet for two months.
The asteroid was discovered in August and is set to become a mini-moon, spinning around Earth in a horseshoe shape for about ...