Cracks running through samples of asteroid Ryugu were probably formed by the repeated thawing and freezing of water inside it ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Mini-moon will not complete a full orbit. Instead, it will experience a slight gravitational pull from Earth before ...

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

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 ...