When approaching Earth, asteroids tend to do one of two things: Most of the time, they miss. Sometimes, they hit, leaving a ...

On Saturday NASA’s Independent Verification & Validation Program’s Education Resource Center (ERC) welcomed students from the ...

A recently discovered asteroid will soon become a quasi-satellite of Earth as it loops around our planet over the next two months.

PT5 will orbit Earth from September 29 to November 25, before breaking free from the planet's gravitational pull.

It won't be there forever, but Earth will have a second moon when a small asteroid begins to orbit the planet later this ...

In separate incidents in the past, scientists mistook rocket stages and the Gaia spacecraft as mini-moons. But researchers ...

In 2020, a mini-moon was discovered, later identified as a piece of space junk—a rocket booster from the 1966 Surveyor 2 ...

Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore of NASA spoke from the International Space Station for the first time since their Boeing ...

The space suits worn during SpaceX's Polaris Dawn mission are a sci-fi reimagining of NASA's classic marshmallow suits. There ...

Earth is getting another “mini” moon this month, and a University of Iowa astronomer said the school bus-sized meteor ...

The space rock will make one complete orbit of our planet between Sept. 29 and Nov. 25 before escaping Earth's gravity. Yet ...