NASA OSIRIS-REx sample collection event at Asteroid Bennu saw the spacecraft plunge its arm into the surface. Find out how ...

Radiation from a nuclear explosion can vaporize the surface of an asteroid and change its trajectory, a new study finds.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has issued an asteroid watch today, alerting residents around the globe to an asteroid that ...

The asteroid, named by the space agency as "2024 ON," is 621,000 miles from Earth Danielle Jennings is a Writer/Reporter at PEOPLE, covering stories in Human Interest and Sports. She joins PEOPLE ...

Peanuts! Get your peanuts here! The solar system has been passing out peanuts lately in the form of two different oddly shaped asteroids that recently passed by Earth, and both look like over-sized ...

The small asteroid was discovered on Aug. 7 by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS), a NASA-funded program. Now named asteroid 2024 PT5, it will be captured in Earth's ...

Earth will be getting a second moon in the form of Asteroid 2024 PT5, which will start orbiting our planet later this month. brutto film - stock.adobe.com Our blue moon will no longer be standing ...

The Earth is getting a second moon for a limited time beginning the end of September. An asteroid will come close enough to Earth to temporarily enter its orbit at the end of the month ...

The Earth will soon have a second mini-moon this fall. A newly discovered asteroid will orbit the planet starting in late September. What is Earth's 'second moon'? Scientists discovered asteroid ...

Mini-moons can also be asteroids that come from the main asteroid belt, located between Mars and Jupiter, or they may be fragments of the lunar surface launched by asteroid impacts millions of ...