Earth's orbit will capture a bus-sized asteroid later this month, giving us a second moon for about two months.

The asteroid was discovered in August and is set to become a mini-moon, spinning around Earth in a horseshoe shape for about ...

Tracy C. Dyson is from Arcadia and earned a doctorate in chemistry at UC Davis in 1997. She’s on the ISS as part of her third mission to space. She previously was a mission specialist on the Space ...

A small asteroid, 2024 PT5, will become a mini-moon orbiting Earth from September 29 to November 25. This temporary celestial ...

See how our seasons come from Earth's tilt and yearly loop around the sun, which changes the ice cover, vegetation, and ...

An asteroid will come close enough to Earth to temporarily enter its orbit at the end of the month, a phenomenon dubbed as ...

A temporary “mini-moon” will whirl around Earth for about two months as our planet’s gravity captures a small asteroid in its orbit.

It will pass Earth at 4,450,000 miles away. While distant, the data gathered will be crucial for tracking near-Earth objects.

Traditionally, eclipse maps have been constructed from the assumption that the Moon is a perfect sphere and that all ...

Genetic analysis shows that microbes growing inside the International Space Station have adaptations for radiation and low ...

Iron carried in clouds of Saharan dust blown across the Atlantic Ocean is increasingly available to tiny life forms the further it travels.