Referring to Mars missions and a return to the moon, Cunningham said, "NASA's budget is way too low to do all the things that ...

Saturn gets close to the moon tonight, and some skywatchers in Florida, Central America and South America will see the ringed planet briefly disappear behind our lunar companion.

Tengrinews.kz - For years, scientists have observed intriguing "patterns" on Venus known as tesserae, unique features found ...

This asteroid was first detected by astronomers who have been tracking its trajectory to ensure it poses no threat to Earth. The close approach will provide scientists with an excellent ...

Like TB2, it is categorised as ‘potentially hazardous,’ but its path poses no danger to our planet ... the Galileo spacecraft made the groundbreaking discovery of the first asteroid moon. The S-type ...

It's here to stay, or at least until Thanksgiving week. But it's not a moon. In fact, it's an asteroid named 2024 PT5. It entered Earth's orbit on Sept. 29 and will be taking up residency in our ...

The controlled impact of NASA's DART spacecraft on 26 September 2022 brought the asteroid moon closer to Didymos, shortening the moonlet’s orbital period by 32 minutes to 11 hours 23 minutes. The Hera ...

It was 50 to 200 times the size of the dinosaur-killing asteroid. It boiled the oceans, drove global darkness for years to decades, and stoked unimaginable tsunamis (thousands of meters deep ...

A city-sized asteroid is heading towards Earth this October ... “The safe distance ensures there is no risk of collision with Earth, making it an ideal event for observation.

Nasa / Maxar Technologies Then the Lunar I-Hab will reach the Moon "no earlier than 2028" as part of that mission. It's during that mission that astronauts will enter the space station for the ...

This asteroid is due to zoom past the Earth on October 28, passing us at a distance of about 148,000 miles, which is closer to our planet than the moon. This may sound like an immense distance ...

While the origins of these asteroids aren’t completely known, scientists believe at least one may have come from the Moon. The asteroid known as Kamo`oalewa is believed to be a fragment of the ...