Earth and Saturn might be a lot more similar than previously thought. In a new study, a team of researchers suggests that 466 ...

The countries in question would rush to access the resourceful asteroid, enhancing the tension that was already there between ...

A small asteroid may become a "mini-moon" of Earth's for a couple of months, according to some astronomers. But what makes something a mini-moon, and why are they so hard to spot?

A recently discovered asteroid will soon become a quasi-satellite of Earth as it loops around our planet over the next two ...

This new floating rock is only expected to orbit the Earth once, beginning its trip Sept. 29 before breaking off from its ...

The asteroid was discovered in August and is set to become a mini-moon, spinning around Earth in a horseshoe shape for about ...

Earth will soon have a visitor — and not of the extraterrestrial kind. Astronomers found a small asteroid that will orbit our planet this fall, becoming a "mini-moon" temporarily.

Earth is set to gain a temporary second moon this fall as the 2024 PT5 asteroid gets caught in our planet's gravitational ...

Multiple bullets containing a tiny spectrometer could be shot into the lunar soil by an astronaut or rover, allowing analysis ...

A ring could explain a mysterious arrangement of impact craters near the equator and might even have caused an ice age, ...

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 ...