A mini moon that will bid farewell to Earth soon may in fact be a small hunk of the big moon — the one that has loomed far ...

Earth may have had a ring made up of a broken asteroid over 400 million years ago, a study finds. The Saturn-like feature ...

Astronomers at the Complutense University of Madrid first spotted this intriguing event using a powerful telescope in ...

For the past couple of weeks, Earth's orbit has been home to a "mini-moon" the size of a city bus. The celestial object is ...

It's here to stay, or at least until Thanksgiving week. But it's not a moon. In fact, it's an asteroid named 2024 PT5. It entered Earth's orbit on Sept. 29 and will be taking up residency in our ...

Asteroid 2024 UQ entered Earth’s atmosphere hours after detection. 2024 UQ was too small for major impact, disintegrated off ...

A “killer asteroid,” large enough to decimate Baltimore and the surrounding areas, may be heading toward Earth at this very ...

This asteroid, designated 2024 UQ, was first discovered on Oct. 22 by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System ...

The asteroid, named 2024 VK3, will pass Earth at a distance of about 273,000 miles, just further than the moon's 238,900-mile ...

The asteroid, named 2024 VX3, will pass us at a distance of 92,100 miles, closer than the moon's 238,900-mile orbit.

2029 Apophis asteroid flyby will be a close encounter with Earth Earth’s gravity may dramatically alter the surface of ...