The Earth Is Getting a Mini-Moon—but Only for About a Month
On August 7, 2024, NASA’s Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) detected a space object that, for a little more than a month, will become a mini-moon of Earth. Named 2024 PT5, the rock is only 33 meters long and will form a kind of horseshoe-like orbit around Earth from September 29 to November 5 before leaving Earth’s orbit.
NASA Prepares to Launch Europa Clipper
Multiple bullets containing a tiny spectrometer could be shot into the lunar soil by an astronaut or rover, allowing analysis ...
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NASA Creates Most Accurate Eclipse Maps EverTraditionally, eclipse maps have been constructed from the assumption that the Moon is a perfect sphere and that all ...
Late Tuesday, Intuitive Machines (LUNR) announced that NASA had awarded the company the Near Space Network contract for communication and navigation services for missions in the near-space region, ...
A Mars scientist shares the inside story of the NASA Curiosity rover's poignant first photo of Earth and Mars moon Phobos ...
The Curiosity rover captured this image on Sept. 9, 2024, during its 4,295th Martian day (called a "sol") on Mars. It's been ...
The Lunar Array Mast and Power System (LAMPS) power harvesting tool developed by Honeybee Robotics ends thermal vacuum testing over at the NASA ...
A group of Black female scientists and mathematicians known as NASA's “Hidden Figures” were honored Wednesday with ...
NASA has finished building its spacecraft bus to deploy the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope into orbit after the space ...
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