Read more: How Long Is Each Moon Phase? Unfortunately, scientists are still trying to understand fully the variations at play regarding the temporary capture of asteroids by Earth's gravity.

A space probe named Hera captured images of Mars' small Deimos moon while on a mission to examine an asteroid.

The Blue Ghost touchdown kicks off two weeks of around-the-clock research by NASA science and technology payloads.

Capture theory suggests that the Moon was a wandering body (like an asteroid) that formed elsewhere in the solar system and was captured by Earth's gravity as it passed nearby. The accretion ...

the small satellite mission will use the gravity of the sun, Earth, and moon over several months to gradually line up for capture into lunar orbit. NASA's Lunar Trailblazer arrived in Florida ...

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost landed on the moon at 2:34 a.m. It’s expected to operate for two weeks, conducting NASA ...

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And since the moon’s gravity is one-sixth of Earth’s ... “Our innovative solutions make it possible for scientists to capture, contain, and analyze planetary regolith samples throughout ...

We will never stop thinking and talking about the moon, says Matthew Shindell, a curator at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington DC. “In cities where there is a lot of artificial ...