Credit: China Rocket HELSINKI — China launched its fourth Jielong-3 solid rocket from a sea platform late Monday, putting eight remote sensing satellites into sun-synchronous orbit. The fourth ...

Sometimes, life really does resemble a science fiction movie. For the past couple of weeks, Earth's orbit has been home to a "mini-moon" the size of a city bus. The celestial object is more than ...

The tiny asteroid, which researchers named "2024 PT5," will temporarily orbit Earth before returning ... not be able to see the mini-moon first-hand. According to Space.com's reporting, a ...

NASA Mars Odyssey orbiter has been rotated to capture imagery of the Red Planet that would be similar to what an astronaut would see. Odyssey Deputy Project Scientist Laura Kerber explains.

The moon will soon have a companion in Earth's orbit for a limited time. An Arjuna asteroid will become a "mini-moon" event for nearly two months starting Sept. 29, according to a study published ...

On September 29, an asteroid dubbed 2024 PT5 will become a "mini-moon" of sorts, temporarily entering Earth's orbit for almost two months before the forces of gravity return it to a vast field of ...

“It will not complete one orbit around Earth, just part of it,” said Carlos de la Fuente Marcos, who co-authored a study about the asteroid published this month in the journal Research Notes ...

It is expected to follow a horseshoe-type orbit to become a “mini-moon” of Earth on 29 September only to return to a path orbiting the Sun about 57 days later on 25 November, according to the ...