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 ...

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

On September 29, 2024, Earth captured a tiny asteroid named 2024 PT5, turning it into a temporary mini-moon. It won't be around much longer.

Earth’s newly captured mini-moon 2024 PT5 will depart in November, highlighting the fascination with transient asteroids.

DART's goal was to examine how well a planetary defense strategy in moving a threatening space rock away from Earth. Hera will examine the collision from a nearby vantage point, providing a different ...

The European Space Agency's Hera craft, en route to an asteroid, recently captured footage of our planet and the moon, set ...

The majority of these asteroids are located within the asteroid belt between Mars ... that there are around 3,800 near-Earth ...

A new study posits that our planet's gravity will cause seismic activity on Apophis when it makes its close approach in 2029.

But those stays didn't establish a lasting human presence on the moon. More than 50 years after the most recent crewed moon ...

This week's special full moon will be the last supermoon to be seen for a year, followed by a bright cosmic meteor shower ...

A new European Space Agency mission is set to study asteroid Apophis to learn more about how we can handle asteroid threats ...

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 ...