On Sunday, Sept. 29, Earth captured a new "minimoon" called 2024 PT5. The bus-size asteroid is expected to orbit our planet ...

Here’s the deal: On Sept. 29 Earth’s gravity snagged a “mini moon” and pulled it into our orbit. This second moon is ...

This fall, the Earth will have a temporary cosmic companion. Astronomers have discovered that a “mini moon" will orbit our ...

On August 7, NASA-funded UH‘s Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert Survey (ATLAS) telescope in Sutherland, South Africa, ...

Astronomers and biologists have long believed that a lot of the chemistry necessary for life was imported to Earth aboard ...

As the traditional solid-based sensors are less effective in noisy environments and susceptible to unwanted disturbances, ...

As of last night, Earth has a mini-moon! According to NASA, a moon is simply a natural object that orbits a planet. Earth's new mini-moon is actually an.. | Earth And The Environment ...

A crater-rich dwarf planet named Ceres located in the main asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter was long thought to be composed of a materials mixture not dominated by water ice.

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - Over the weekend, a small asteroid entered what will be a nearly two-month orbit around our planet.

A new study sheds light on the birthplace of asteroid Ryugu, which is now believed to have formed near Jupiter.

Did you know that the moon has been joined in Earth orbit by an asteroid? Don’t worry, it’s not going to hit us – and it’ll only be with us for a while… #Space #Earth #Moon ...