The small near-Earth asteroid 2024 PT5 has been creating a buzz among researchers. Discovered last year with the help of a ...
If it’s real, some may question whether something with a mass about three times Pluto’s counts as a planet at all.
NASA suggests asteroid 2024 PT5 might be a fragment of lunar rock Observations show a composition matching Moon samples, not asteroids Rare lunar-origin asteroids offer new insights for space explorat ...
Anyone who reads this column regularly knows how much I enjoy seeing a conjunction of the moon and Venus in the western sky at dusk. I’m not sure why it’s ...
Images of Mars taken from orbit show thousands of mounds in a region sculpted by water billions of years ago. A robotic mission may investigate the area one day.
Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander, a private spacecraft hired by NASA to take experiments to the moon, is flying laps ...
For a few months, Earth had a second moon — a tiny asteroid that may have been a piece of our own Moon ...
For a brief, but exciting, time last year, Earth had two moons. A small asteroid lingered close to our planet in its orbit ...
The Blue Ghost lunar mission has captured a gorgeous image of Earth as it ramps up its journey toward the moon.
An unusual looking 33-foot-long object discovered orbiting Earth last year may have come from a surprising place.
Earth's temporary asteroid friend last year was a chunk of its real moon that had been blasted into space thousands of years ...
Scientists think a small rock discovered near Earth last August was hurled into space by an ancient impact on the lunar surface.