In a $19.5 million NASA-funded mission, a team at George Mason University is heading a project to construct and launch a small satellite into orbit.

Earth will be getting a second moon in the form of Asteroid 2024 PT5, which will start orbiting our planet later this month.

The asteroid was found by a group called ATLAS, which stands for Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System, in August.

From late September until late November this year, a “mini-moon”, called 2024 PT5 by the astrologers who spotted it ...

Earth is getting a visitor in our orbit for a couple of months.It's nowhere near the size of our actual moon, but they're ...

Asteroid will come close enough to Earth to temporarily enter its orbit at the end of the month, a phenomenon dubbed as "mini ...

An asteroid is expected to make a “horseshoe path” around Earth over the next two months. For the next two months, an unusual ...

There's a lot of debris in our solar system, and every so often we get to see it — meteors streaking against a starry sky, a ...

Multiple bullets containing a tiny spectrometer could be shot into the lunar soil by an astronaut or rover, allowing analysis ...

Though the mini-moon will only be in Earth’s orbit for about two months, it’ll stay close to the planet for a few months, ...

The largest moon in the solar system is Ganymede, which orbits the largest planet, Jupiter. New research suggests that an ...