Astronomers have discovered a small asteroid that has been quietly accompanying Earth on its journey around the sun for the ...

Earth has a new cosmic companion, a 19-meter asteroid named 2025 PN7, discovered in August 2025. This 'quasi-moon' will orbit ...

Calls for the US to land astronauts back on the moon before China have been increasingly loud and frequent. But it all hinges ...

Impulse Space, the California-based venture founded by veteran SpaceX engineer Tom Mueller, today unveiled its proposed ...

When Earth is opposite Mars from the sun, it will appear full because you’re looking directly on the daylit side. But ...

Humans haven't been to the moon in decades, but NASA's Artemis II mission is about to change that, and perhaps even sooner ...

The towering rocket tasked with launching NASA's next moon astronauts on their historic lunar journey has come together.

NASA's Artemis II astronauts will embark on the first crewed U.S. mission to the moon in half a century. It could launch early in 2026.

NASA is looking for new ideas for moon landers to help astronauts return to the surface of the moon as progress for SpaceX's ...

Quasi-moons are not real moons and don't actually orbit the Earth, although they sometimes appear to do so for short periods of time, Phil Nicholson, professor of astronomy at Cornell University, told ...

The first Artemis mission lasted 25 days and saw the launch of an uncrewed spacecraft in November 2022. It saw a spacecraft travel around the Moon and re-enter the Earth's atmosphere.