A small asteroid will join earth's orbit in late September and remain until late November.

Peanuts! Get your peanuts here! The solar system has been passing out peanuts lately in the form of two different oddly shaped asteroids that recently passed by Earth, and both look like over-sized ...

Here’s what to know about our new, temporary celestial neighbor. Earth has a large gravitational pull. So it’s not uncommon ...

An Arjuna asteroid, discovered in August, will become a "mini-moon" event for nearly two months from Sept. 29 to Nov. 25.

Earth may have sported a Saturn-like ring system 466 million years ago, after it captured and wrecked a passing asteroid, a new study suggests. The debris ring, which likely lasted tens of millions of ...

In a rare occurrence, the Earth is going to capture an asteroid in its orbit, making the asteroid a mini-moon.

The mirrors for NASA's Near-Earth Object Surveyor space telescope are being installed and aligned, and work on other ...

The Earth has pulled in moons of this type before but none have ever stuck around as long as the moon we know.

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is scheduled to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth on Sept. 24, 2023. Learn more about it in this NASA explainer. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

The last two weeks in space have brought us lots of highly-anticipated events and amazing discoveries. From mission launches ...