The small near-Earth asteroid 2024 PT5 has been creating a buzz among researchers. Discovered last year with the help of a ...

Earth's temporary asteroid friend last year was a chunk of its real moon that had been blasted into space thousands of years ...

For a brief, but exciting, time last year, Earth had two moons. A small asteroid lingered close to our planet in its orbit ...

NASA’s Lucy mission will continue its journey to explore the Jupiter Trojan asteroids, which share Jupiter’s orbit around the ...

Scientists have reevaluated the catastrophic impact of the Chicxulub asteroid that struck 66 million years ago, revising the ...

Asteroids have significantly impacted Earth's history through numerous collisions, shaping the planet's geography and ...

For a few months, Earth had a second moon — a tiny asteroid that may have been a piece of our own Moon ...

A near-Earth object was likely ejected into space after an impact thousands of years ago. Now it could contribute new ...

Last year, astronomers on the hunt for potentially dangerous near-Earth asteroids spotted something unusual. A space rock, ...

The sun’s light exerts a tiny force called “solar radiation pressure” on objects in space. Lightweight human-made debris, ...

Asteroid 2024 PT5 was discovered by Nasa's Asteroid Terrestrial-Impact Last Alert System (ATLAS). Scientists believe that the ...

Scientists think a small rock discovered near Earth last August was hurled into space by an ancient impact on the lunar surface.