The Deep Space Network’s Goldstone Solar System Radar near Barstow, California, captured a series of radar images of the near ...

Eager to not meet a similar fate, the National Academy of Sciences has called for planetary defense to be a national priority ...

PT5 "mini-moon" asteroid will soon be in Earth's orbit. Here's everything you need to know about this celestial event.

Earth will get a "new moon" this weekend when, on Sunday (Sept. 29), it captures the asteroid 2024 PT5, claiming it as a very ...

A near-Earth asteroid is turning heads for a distinct shape that makes it awfully hard to take seriously — even though it's ...

There is no current threat looming, but scientists have been working on how to stave off any big asteroids that could come ...

But it will be a satellite of the Earth, or at least until Nov. 25, when it will slip out of our planet’s gravitational grasp ...

An asteroid is approaching the Earth, which experts say will be close to enough to technically become a temporary second moon ...

Holes and Gashes NASA's Curiosity rover has spent over 4,400 Earth days exploring the desolate surface of Mars. It set its ...

Scientists discovered that the asteroid causing the mass extinction 66 million years ago came from a rare C-type asteroid ...

The most well-known contact binary is probably Selam, the little moonlet accompanying the near-Earth asteroid Dinkinesh, ...

Earth has a new “mini- moon ” after an asteroid has joined our orbit. The object, known as 2024 PT5, has been chasing after ...