October's full moon will have some company this month now that a mini-moon is in Earth's orbit. Here's what you should know ...

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 ...

On Sunday, Sept. 29, Earth captured a new "minimoon" called 2024 PT5. The bus-size asteroid is expected to orbit our planet ...

Earth's orbit will temporarily capture a mini moon — a tiny asteroid called Asteroid 2024 PT5. Local educators tell us ...

This October, the astronomy world will be abuzz with night-sky happenings, from a bright and potentially naked-eye-visible ...

This month, Earth will briefly gain a second moon, a small asteroid known as 2024 PT5. You'll need some special equipment to ...

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 ...

Here’s the deal: On Sept. 29 Earth’s gravity snagged a “mini moon” and pulled it into our orbit. This second moon is ...

Astronomers and biologists have long believed that a lot of the chemistry necessary for life was imported to Earth aboard ...

A new study sheds light on the birthplace of asteroid Ryugu, which is now believed to have formed near Jupiter.

Orbiting our planet in a horseshoe-shape, the moon will eventually return to a heliocentric orbit, which is around the Sun.

Scientists at Yale and the Southwest Research Institute proposed a theory that Earth's gold and Platinum came from space.