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 ...
Multiple bullets containing a tiny spectrometer could be shot into the lunar soil by an astronaut or rover, allowing analysis ...
The reason for the drop, the researchers said, was a significant reduction in greenhouse gas emissions and aerosols. The ...
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 ...
As NASA works to return astronauts to the moon, the agency is resurrecting a program aimed at communicating the cultural ...
NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick captured this amazing view from the International Space Station using a new 15mm lens (T1.8, ...
The Artemis program aims to land humans on the moon for the first time since the Apollo missions managed to achieve the feat ...
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