For the past couple of weeks, Earth's orbit has been home to a "mini ... It's unlikely you'll see the mini-moon. NASA says the absolute magnitude of 2024 PT5 is 27.593. That means it's quite ...

On September 29, 2024, Earth captured a tiny asteroid named 2024 PT5, turning it into a temporary mini-moon. It won't be around much longer.

More than 50 years after the most recent crewed moon landing — Apollo 17 in December 1972 — there are plenty of reasons to ...

India is not alone in this quest. NASA, too, is developing the Lunar Gateway, a space station that will orbit the Moon.

The dark skies during a new moon ... to Earth's orbit around the sun, it doesn't block out the sun on every orbit, hence why not every new moon results in a solar eclipse, according to NASA.

In 1969, Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong stepped onto the moon's surface—a momentous engineering and science feat marked ...

The Leonid meteor shower, considered a major shower, will bring along fireballs and "Earth-grazer" meteors. How to watch.

Titan is a giant moon – the second biggest in our solar system, and even larger than the planet Mercury. Nasa says it has a nitrogen-based atmosphere like Earth – but its clouds and rain are methane.

NOVEMBER 14, 2024 — Two UTSA researchers will develop proposals over the next six months that NASA hopes to use to get humans ...

NASA's Wind Spacecraft has been studying solar wind for 30 years, investigating basic plasma processes in the solar wind ...

The 2024 prize winner talks about setting her novel aboard the orbiting ISS to observe the beauty of our planet — and warn of ...

The Trump and Musk alliance could speed up the next human moon landing and Starship's first mission to Mars.