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

(CNN) — Earth is about to gain a new “mini-moon,” but it won’t stay around for long.

Planetary scientists are confident this moon of Jupiter harbors a deep ocean. A looming question is whether it hosts the ...

Watching for changes in the Red Planet’s orbit over time could be a new way to detect passing dark matter. MIT physicists ...

A rare mini-moon, a small asteroid temporarily captured by Earth's gravity, will briefly orbit the planet for two months.

Earth's orbit will capture a bus-sized asteroid later this month, giving us a second moon for about two months.

Earth will have a second “mini-moon” in addition to its regular lunar companion for about two months starting on Sept. 29, ...

In just over one week’s time, Earth will gain a new celestial companion that will stay for two months in the planet’s ...

Earth is about to get a new neighbor in the form of an asteroid. By Nov. 25, the mini-moon is expected to break free of Earth ...

Impact craters found around the Earth that were made around the same time could be linked to debris falling from a ring, a ...

A small asteroid called 2024 PT5 will temporarily orbit Earth this fall. Here's what it looks like and whether it will be ...

The asteroid was discovered in August and is set to become a mini-moon, spinning around Earth in a horseshoe shape for about ...