An asteroid will come close enough to Earth to temporarily enter its orbit at the end of the month, a phenomenon dubbed as ...

To reach that surprisingly conclusion, scientists studied the positions of 21 asteroid impact craters during the Ordovician period – the second of six periods in the ...

Earth is expected to briefly acquire a temporary companion—a small asteroid named 2024 PT5 which will behave as a ‘mini moon’ ...

Earth will gain a temporary companion in the form of a small asteroid called 2024 PT5. This space rock, around 10 metres wide ...

On September 4 2024, astronomers discovered an asteroid, 1 meter in diameter, heading towards Earth. The space rock would ...

Flybys of primordial black holes may occur once a decade. Tweaks to the orbits of planets and GPS satellites could give away their presence.

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

Image source: Tryfonov/Adobe This asteroid passing Earth isn’t the only cosmic event we’ll be ... If you have a properly ...

Asteroid hunter Jacqueline Fazekas started the evening of Sept. 4, 2024, much like she spends half of every lunar month: ...

After previous reports batted away the idea that Earth could be smashed into smithereens by the God of Chaos asteroid, it turns out it could actually happen. The giant rock was first spotted in ...

Outlining the scientific basis he states: "The odds of an unseen small asteroid deflecting Apophis enough to direct it into a collision with Earth in 2029 (d 3.4 m, v > 5 102 m s1) are ...