A chunk of space rock that visited near Earth's orbit last year was widely called a "mini-moon," a nickname that was more ...

An asteroid that orbited near Earth for a few months as a mini-moon may be a chunk of the moon that was blasted off by an ...

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost moon lander caught haunting images of Earth while preparing to make its way towards lunar ...

The small near-Earth asteroid 2024 PT5 has been creating a buzz among researchers. Discovered last year with the help of a ...

For a brief, but exciting, time last year, Earth had two moons. A small asteroid lingered close to our planet in its orbit ...

For a few months, Earth had a second moon — a tiny asteroid that may have been a piece of our own Moon ...

and without its Earth-facing side illuminated by the sun, observers can't really see it. Occasionally, the moon's orbit does bring it directly between the Earth and the sun during a new moon ...

BJ's closest approach to Earth will be about 220,000 miles (354,000 kilometers) way. The space rock is ~68 feet (21 meters) ...

Scientists think a small rock discovered near Earth last August was hurled into space by an ancient impact on the lunar surface.

The images were captured using NASA’s Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC), a 4MP CCD camera and telescope on the DSCOVR ...

Blue Ghost will spend 25 days in Earth's orbit before embarking on a four-day journey to the moon, located around a quarter-million miles away. The Blue Ghost spacecraft's trajectory to the moon.

Analysis of 2024 PT5's orbit showed it wasn't an errant piece of space junk. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech The asteroid is about 33 feet (10 meters) across and poses no danger to Earth. It joins ...