Astronomers have reported that Earth will have two natural satellites for nearly two months, from September 29 to November 25 ...

Scientists have uncovered an underwater event that wiped out nearly all life in a groundbreaking discovery. The new study has ...

Earth will be getting a second moon in the form of Asteroid 2024 PT5, which will start orbiting our planet later this month.

While short mini-moon events are relatively common, longer capture episodes are rare, occurring only about once every 10 to 20 years. Stargazers will need a telescope to catch a glimpse of this ...

(CNN) — Earth is about to gain a new “mini-moon,” but it won’t stay around for long.

LOS ANGELES — Earth is about to get a new neighbor in the form of an asteroid. But this one won’t be making an impact.

The asteroid was found by a group called ATLAS, which stands for Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System, in August.

An asteroid heading towards Earth is set to have an unusual fate: instead of smashing through our planet’s atmosphere, it’s ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is keeping a close watch. Two giant asteroids, 2024 RY15 and 2024 RZ21, are set to fly by ...

SHAPIRO: Writing this month in the journal Research Notes of the American Astronomical Society, scientists estimate the asteroid is 33 feet long - about the size of a bus. And sorry, backyard ...

Scientists have proposed a fascinating new idea: Earth may have once possessed a ring system, akin to that of Saturn. These ...