A mini-moon will orbit the Earth in a horseshoe pattern for about two months from September 29 to November 25.

According to a large team of technical and health specialists, astronauts aboard the Orion spacecraft will be well protected ...

UCF's latest version of its space-themed uniforms will honor NASA's plan to return to the moon. Entitled "Mission VIII," the ...

After visiting the second planet from the sun, the spacecraft will complete two more flybys of Earth in 2026 and 2029, both without the additional boost from the moon. As the spacecraft ... officials ...

Earth will soon have two moons, but not for long.  According to a study published in the journal Research Notes of the ...

An asteroid will become Earth's 'mini-moon' starting at the end of September after getting stuck in our planet's gravity.

The SpaceX Polaris Dawn mission may wind down this weekend. Here are all the ways its crew of four citizen astronauts has ...

ShadowCam, a NASA instrument aboard a South Korean spacecraft, is taking pictures of the moon where the sun doesn’t shine ... For the 25th anniversary of the Chandra X-ray Observatory, NASA ...

Up here on the International Space Station ... the Moon's phases. The Moon does not make its own light like a star. The Moon appears bright because it reflects light from the Sun.

Japanese space exploration firm ispace is gearing up for its second shot at landing on the moon. The mission ... Criteria included continuous sun-illumination and communication visibility from ...

a sparse population of small near-Earth space objects orbiting the Sun. This is a secondary asteroid belt in the Solar System surrounding the path followed by the Earth-Moon system. In some ...