PT5 could be anywhere between 16 to 138 feet across, potentially larger than the asteroid that exploded over Chelyabinsk, ...

During an equinox, places around the globe experience nearly equal amounts of daytime and nighttime. The second occurrence ...

Earth's orbit will capture a bus-sized asteroid later this month, giving us a second moon for about two months.

A small asteroid called 2024 PT5 will temporarily orbit Earth this fall. Here's what it looks like and whether it will be ...

Earth will have a second “mini-moon” in addition to its regular lunar companion for about two months starting on Sept. 29, ...

Boeing's Starliner spacecraft landed uncrewed in a New Mexico desert late on Friday, concluding a three-month test mission marked by technical issues that caused the astronauts it had transported ...

For the second summer in a row ... hotter than summer 2023's record-setting temperatures. More concerningly, Earth is creeping closer to the 1.5 degrees Celsius threshold established by the ...

For the second summer in a row, global temperatures broke temperature ... 0.03 degrees hotter than summer 2023's record-setting temperatures. More concerningly, Earth is creeping closer to the 1.5 ...

In a major boost to lunar exploration, Intuitive Machines has secured a $116.9 million contract from NASA to deliver six scientific instruments to the Moon's south pole in 2027. This Houston-based ...

Volcanoes were still erupting on the moon during Earth’s dinosaur age, new research suggests, much more recently than previously believed. Three tiny glass beads that were collected from the ...

Although many lunar phenomena are one-night-only events, a ring around the moon is much less elusive. Also known as a lunar halo, a bright white ring of light around the moon can appear anytime ...

Researchers believed that after that, volcanism on the moon slowly petered out. That changed when the Chang’e-5 mission returned to Earth with fresh samples from the lunar surface in 2020.