Earth to capture a 'second moon' this weekend, NASA says
Earth will capture a miniature, "second moon" this week, according to NASA scientists. The new moon is actually a tiny asteroid dubbed 2024 PT5. It will start orbiting the planet in a horseshoe path and stick around for a little less than two months before escaping Earth's gravitational pull and going back to its regular orbit around the sun.
Is Earth getting a new moon? What to know about the rare phenomenon starting this month
Unlike the existing moon — which has orbited our planet for about 4 billion years — this new floating rock is only expected to orbit the Earth once, beginning its trip Sept. 29 before breaking off from its gravitational pull on Nov. 25. So, will you be able to get a glimpse of the extraterrestrial event?
NASA has developed a process that creates more accurate solar eclipse maps, the agency recently announced — and the shadow ...
Lofty goals. Also, unsurprisingly, not cheap. According to NASA, the VIPER project has cost $433m so far, well above its ...
Researchers at Cornell University have leveraged the intense volcanic activity on Jupiter's moon Io to advance our ...
24, at 2:50 p.m. EDT (1850 GMT.) The new moon is the so-called "invisible phase of the moon," according to NASA, because the illuminated side of the moon is facing away from Earth, toward ...
NASA has proposed shooting at the moon to further our understanding of what it's made of. The out-of-this-world plan would involve an astronaut or rover using a special gun to shoot sensors into ...
NASA wants to establish a permanent human presence on the moon, but right now, astronauts have to be in direct line of sight ...
The Artemis program aims to land humans on the moon for the first time since the Apollo missions managed to achieve the feat ...
As NASA works to return astronauts to the moon, the agency is resurrecting a program aimed at communicating the cultural ...
The book, A Truth Beyond Full, by Rosie Oliver, is a science fiction book about mining published by Elsewhen Press. Oliver is ...
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