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

Multiple bullets containing a tiny spectrometer could be shot into the lunar soil by an astronaut or rover, allowing analysis ...

Detectors inside Artemis I’s Orion capsule show how much radiation exposure its mannequins underwent and how effective a ...

When approaching Earth, asteroids tend to do one of two things: Most of the time, they miss. Sometimes, they hit, leaving a ...

The mini-moon, an asteroid called 2024 PT5, was spotted by the Asteroid Terrestrial-Impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) on Aug.

Half of the airframe for the Columbia was built in Tulsa, according to David Blankenship, public relations director for Tulsa ...

Later this month, an asteroid called 2024 PT5 will be joining Earth's orbit, becoming a mini-moon. The mini-moon will be in ...

Earth will get a second moon, but only for a couple of months. Here's everything you need to know about this cosmic ...

This month’s issue covers the reasons it’s so hard to go back to the moon, the science of empathy and new advances in ...

He advanced the study of a millenniums-old mystery: why the moon appears larger on the horizon than it does high in the night ...

China's Chang'e 5 mission brought back evidence that the moon had erupting volcanoes just 120 million years ago.

Rocket Lab is set to launch an Electron rocket with 25 new satellites part of a growing orbital constellation in what will be ...