Asteroids are ripe for mining. Some contain gold or platinum. Others could help make rocket fuel. When they're mini-moons, ...
NASA OSIRIS-REx sample collection event at Asteroid Bennu saw the spacecraft plunge its arm into the surface. Find out how ...
Earth's orbit will temporarily capture a mini moon — a tiny asteroid called Asteroid 2024 PT5. Local educators tell us ...
Mini-moon will not complete a full orbit. Instead, it will experience a slight gravitational pull from Earth before ...
On Sunday, Sept. 29, Earth captured a new "minimoon" called 2024 PT5. The bus-size asteroid is expected to orbit our planet ...
NASA is closely monitoring these asteroids as they travel through space. This event simply showcases the many intriguing ...
To qualify as a mini-moon, an asteroid must be relatively close to Earth, within 4.5 million kilometers, and travel at a ...
The Earth has got itself a new moon. The new satellite is temporary: it will leave again at the end of November. And it is ...
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 ...
Researchers at the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) say they discovered a “mini moon”, using equipment at the South African Astronomical Observatory (SALT) in Sutherland in the ...
The annual event celebrated its 18th edition this weekend, with artists in good spirits despite rain and a subway line that didn’t run into Manhattan.