"Asteroids that fail to escape Earth's gravity and end up orbiting the planet for a time are referred to as mini-moons," The ...

Earth may have had rings. At least that's what a new study published this month claims. Here's what we know so far.

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft flew by asteroid Dinkinesh and made a surprising discovery, a close binary! Preliminary statistics ...

A weird number of craters are located close to the equator, and the odds that this is random are incredibly low, researchers ...

Have you heard about Asteroid Apophis? It's like the rockstar of space—cool name, big impact! This bad boy has been causing a ...

Wits University geology Professor Roger Gibson said the rock was called a breccia and was clearly a mix of different rocks.

“Thirty light-years. Thanks for sticking with us all the way,” he said, keeping on theme while marveling at how long it’s ...

Scientists have used data from a long-retired NASA Dawn spacecraft to solve the mystery surrounding the origins of the ...

Billions of years ago, a massive asteroid struck Ganymede, the largest moon orbiting Jupiter, shifting it on its axis, new ...

A fascinating celestial event is on the horizon as asteroid 2024 RF, a space rock approximately 50 feet in diameter, is set to pass near Earth on September 6. This asteroid, about the length of a ...

"This asteroid is only the ninth that mankind has ever discovered before its impact." However, it was harmless for the Earth, they say. The US Catalina Sky Survey program, which looks out for ...