A temporary “mini-moon” will whirl around Earth for about two months as our planet’s gravity captures a small asteroid in its orbit.

You might think of asteroids as just rocks of various sizes floating around in space. But they’re vastly more complex than ...

The largest moon in the solar system is Ganymede, which orbits the largest planet, Jupiter. New research suggests that an ...

A mini-moon will happen again in 2029; that one WILL be visible to the naked eye. The asteroid Apophis will come within ...

Earth is getting another “mini” moon this month, and a University of Iowa astronomer said the school bus-sized meteor ...

The infamous "God of Chaos" asteroid could be tipped onto a collision course with Earth, scientists have warned. The asteroid ...

The ring might have acted like a giant sunshade, causing a cooling effect that might have unleashed an ice age.

A stadium-sized asteroid is passing relatively close to Earth on Tuesday, NASA announced. Its distance from Earth and its ...

A stadium-sized asteroid named 2024 ON is expected to pass by Earth at high speed on September 17, 2024, as per a warning ...

Earth will get a second moon, but only for a couple of months. Here's everything you need to know about this cosmic ...

The mini-moon, an asteroid called 2024 PT5, was spotted by the Asteroid Terrestrial-Impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) on Aug.

A chance encounter with another asteroid could steer Apophis destructively close to Earth during a future passage.