A rare mini-moon, a small asteroid temporarily captured by Earth's gravity, will briefly orbit the planet for two months.

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

The mini-moon, an asteroid called 2024 PT5, was spotted by the Asteroid Terrestrial-Impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) on Aug.

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"Earth sure looks like a perfect world," businessman Jared Isaacman says as he leaves the SpaceX capsule and steps out into space.

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Asteroid 2024 ON, sized roughly 720 feet in diameter, will safely pass Earth today at a distance of 997,793 kilometers—more ...

The Polaris Dawn mission took off Tuesday morning. The civilian crew launched aboard a SpaceX capsule into Earth’s orbit to ...

NASA has announced to bring back astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore in February 2025 which makes it 8 months stay ...

After launching early on Tuesday, the billionaire Jared Isaacman and his crew traveled to altitudes not visited by any ...