The mini-moon, an asteroid called 2024 PT5, was spotted by the Asteroid Terrestrial-Impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) on Aug.

“Over millions of years, material from this ring gradually fell to Earth, creating the spike in meteorite impacts observed in ...

Earth will grab itself another moon this month, but only briefly. The "mini-moon" in the form of asteroid 2024 PT5 will stick ...

The asteroid is around 500 feet and will come within 2 million miles of Earth, which is about eight times further than the ...

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 ...

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

Our Earth is about 4.5 billion years old and, through careful work, scientists have pieced together a timeline of its past.

The Curiosity rover captured this image on Sept. 9, 2024, during its 4,295th Martian day (called a "sol") on Mars. It's been ...

Four huge-size asteroids are racing towards Earth today, September 20. These asteroids are expected to pass by the planet at ...

"Primordial black holes do not live in the solar system. Rather, they’re streaming through the universe, doing their own thing. And the probability is, they’re going through the inner solar system at ...

The paradox of our times is that our material progress has outpaced our intellectual, social and moral progress.

The ring might have acted like a giant sunshade, causing a cooling effect that might have unleashed an ice age.