Already this year we have had the first commercial space flight to successfully land on the moon. Elon Musk’s SpaceX is also an integral part of Nasa’s Artemis programme to return to moon as ...

Others do not complete a full revolution lasting a few months, weeks or even days, according to Space.com. Previous mini-moon events occurred in short-lived mini moon in 1981 and 2022, researchers ...

with the full moon its most dazzling stage. Tariq is the Editor-in-Chief of Space.com and joined the team in 2001. He covers skywatching, human spaceflight, exploration as well as space science ...

For nearly two months this year, Earth’s moon will have company — a second ... This is how many “mini-moons” are formed. An object in space can get caught in the Earth’s gravitational ...

The study's lead author Carlos de la Fuente Marcos told Space.com the mini-moon will be too small to see with amateur telescopes or binoculars but professional astronomers with stronger tools will ...

a rocket launch or any other astronomical and space event that’s out of this world. People all over North America spent the afternoon awed by the movement of the moon’s shadow, the last time ...

NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick has shared a stunning image that he took recently aboard the International Space Station (ISS). The photograph shows a large-looking moon dominating the scene ...

Europa Clipper aims to find out whether the ice-encased moon Europa could be habitable. The commander of the daring space voyage that included the first-ever spacewalk by private astronauts ...

The moon's regolith is the layer of loose, fragmented material made up of a variety of materials that have been broken down by billions of years of meteoroid impacts, solar wind, and other space ...

These are samples of rock ejected into space from the lunar surface when a space rock collides with the moon. These rock fragments may later enter the Earth's atmosphere, and some even hit the ground.

For instance, one such space rock 2022 NX 1 was a short-lived “mini-moon” in 1981 and again in 2022. The asteroid 2024 PT5 as the name suggests was only discovered last month by scientists ...

Moon watchers will get a special treat this month: September's full "harvest" moon is also a supermoon, meaning it's slightly bigger and brighter than an average moon. The full moon will be ...