Earth has a newly discovered—albeit temporary—companion in its journey around the sun. In research published this month in ...

Asteroid 2024 PT5 is considered Earth's mini-moon and may be a key target for potential asteroid mining operations.

A recently observed object called 2025 PN7 was found orbiting near the Earth. The quasi-moon is expected to accompany our ...

If you’ve ever wanted to write your name across the stars, now’s your chance. Until Jan. 21, 2026 you can add your name to a ...

The Earth stands alone in the solar system as a habitable world, as far as we know. But that doesn’t mean we don’t get visitors, most often in the form of (usually harmless) asteroids. Some even ...

Astronomers have found yet another quasi-moon companion of Earth in its orbit around the Sun believed to be a chunk of our ...

Earth is the only planet in our solar system with a single moon, making it a rare phenomenon for a planet of its kind.

In a new study published in the journal Research Notes of the American Astronomical Society, astronomers report the discovery ...

For more than sixty years, a tiny asteroid has been moving in step with Earth, hidden from view until recently. Astronomers ...

The astronaut candidates will begin two years of training before becoming eligible for missions to low-Earth orbit and beyond ...

The next full moon will be the largest and brightest full moon of the year - the October 2025 harvest supermoon. Here's what to know and when to watch ...

In March 1968, the Soviet Union had a partial success with Zond 4. With this launch, they were able to take the spacecraft ...