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The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) spacecraft, barreling through our solar system, recently used Earth's gravity to ...

The mini-moon, an asteroid called 2024 PT5, was spotted by the Asteroid Terrestrial-Impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) on Aug.

Typhoon Chanthu lashed East Asia in 2021. At one point, winds reached 170 mph, making it one of the strongest storms of the ...

The European Space Agency sent a plane to capture footage of the first of four Cluster mission satellites reentering Earth's ...

A ring could explain a mysterious arrangement of impact craters near the equator and might even have caused an ice age, ...

But very rarely, an asteroid is captured by Earth’s gravity and pirouettes around the planet, becoming, in effect, a moon — albeit an ephemeral one. A space rock spotted recently with NASA ...

Astronomers have found evidence of a process that supports an alternative, more rapid approach to planetary formation, more ...

The space rock will make one complete orbit of our planet between Sept. 29 and Nov. 25 before escaping Earth's gravity. Yet despite this 57-day close flyby of our planet, the asteroid will be hard ...

At PST Art, a huge Southern California event where art and science collide, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is inviting ...

NASA has shared a poignant letter from the only American not on Earth when 9/11 happened. Space Station astronaut Frank ...

This month, Earth will grab itself a second moon in the form of the tiny asteroid 2024 PT5. Unlike the moon, Earth's primary companion which has accompanied our planet for around 4 billion years ...