Earth’s newly captured mini-moon 2024 PT5 will depart in November, highlighting the fascination with transient asteroids.

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.

For the past couple of weeks, Earth's orbit has been home to a "mini-moon" the size of a city bus. The celestial object is ...

Have you ever worried about the moon getting lonely in its terrestrial orbit? Well, worry no more. The moon has found a friend!

Brilliant Jupiter rises at 8:30 p.m. Nov. 1 and by twilight on Nov. 30. It can be found in the constellation Taurus at ...

NIU STEAM launch to the WNIJ studio, and they brought their telescopes, to answer if Earth really has two moons.

The asteroid, named 2024 UQ1, measures approximately 32-feet across and will come closer to Earth than the moon.

This phase of the moon is a great time for stargazing since the bright side of the moon faces away from Earth and won’t overshadow celestial bodies and events. Of course, clouds and other weather ...

Frank Sinatra once sang, “Fly me to the moon,” but now anyone on Earth can ask “Which moon do you want to go to, Frank?” ...

LignoSat, developed by Japanese researchers, will be released into orbit about 250 miles above the Earth from the ...

Halloween is drawing close, causing many to look at the sky for ghosts, vampire bats and silhouettes of witches across a full ...

China is pressing ahead with its mission to land astronauts on the moon by 2030 moving quickly with development and ...