Space burial firm Celestis books a Stoke Space rocket for its second deep space memorial flight to launch human remains on a ...

Earth gained a mini-moon this Sunday, Sept. 29 by capturing a nearby asteroid with its gravitational field. Earth pulled asteroid 2024 PT5 into its gravitational field, changing the asteroid’s orbit ...

The motion of the booster, named 2020 SO, is primarily driven by the gravity of the Sun and Earth. Prior to 2019, the booster was orbiting the Sun with an orbit similar to Earth’s, but moving at a ...

Earth is about to gain a new “mini-moon,” but it won’t stay around for long. The newly discovered asteroid, named 2024 PT5, will temporarily be captured by Earth’s gravity and orbit our world from ...

When asteroids suffer natural impacts in space, debris flies off from the point of impact. The tail of particles that form can help determine the physical characteristics of the asteroid. NASA’s ...

With the Hubble space telescope making the headlines in recent weeks on account of its mechanical issues, humanity’s other eye in the sky, Kepler, has been taken off life support by NASA. The American ...