A recent study, yet to be peer-reviewed, has revealed that asteroid YR4 smashing into our moon could have big implications ...

Members of the Iris team have assembled the Iris Lunar Dream Capsule, a tiny payload that will launch aboard Griffin-1, the next lunar lander from Carnegie Mellon spinout Astrobotic. The capsule — ...

While about 20,000 previously unknown asteroids are discovered every year by telescopes around the world and spacecraft in orbit, the first images by the new Vera C. Rubin Observatory revealed 2,000 ...

The next big space threat isn't to Earth. It's to the Moon.

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - An astronomical phenomena adorns the night sky today, with the Strawberry Moon, the lowest full moon since 2006, making an appearance. The low position of the moon in the southern ...

The failed mission comes two years after the Japanese start-up’s first moonshot ended in a crash landing. A Japanese-made private lunar lander has crashed while attempting to touch down on the moon, ...

Asteroid 2024 PT5, which almost became a temporary mini-moon to Earth, was recently found to be a broken-off part of the moon itself. This discovery has led scientists to believe there are many ...

When it was first discovered, the spectrum of reflected sunlight from the mini-moon’s surface didn’t match any other type of asteroid, and instead closely matched rock from our Moon.

The mini-moon is officially known as asteroid 2024 PT5. After first joining up with Earth on Sept. 29, 2024, the mini-moon left its orbit around our planet at 10:43 a.m. EST ...

After almost two months of companionship, Earth has just lost its “mini-moon.” On Monday, the asteroid dubbed 2024 PT5 was tugged away from our planet and resumed its course in the sun’s ...

Called a "mini-moon" of sorts by some, it temporarily entered Earth's orbit on Sept. 29 from the Arjuna asteroid belt, which follows a similar orbital path around the sun as the Earth.