A mini moon that will bid farewell to Earth soon may in fact be a small hunk of the big moon — the one that has loomed far ...

Astronomers at the Complutense University of Madrid first spotted this intriguing event using a powerful telescope in ...

For the past couple of weeks, Earth's orbit has been home to a "mini-moon" the size of a city bus. The celestial object is ...

The 2020 mini-moon was eventually identified as a rocket ... and it only circles about 25% of the Earth. The asteroid won't complete a full orbit of Earth, so some astronomers refer to it as ...

This Sunday night and into Monday sees the maximum of the annual Leonids meteor shower. The shower has previously been a show ...

The asteroid, named 2024 VX3, will pass us at a distance of 92,100 miles, closer than the moon's 238,900-mile orbit.

Samples collected from the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu have revealed clues about a primordial magnetic field that helped ...

The asteroid, named 2024 VK3, will pass Earth at a distance of about 273,000 miles, just further than the moon's 238,900-mile ...

Samples collected from the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu have revealed clues about a primordial magnetic field that helped asteroids, planets and moons grow in our solar system. Analysis of three ...

An asteroid burned up in the Earth’s atmosphere just hours after it was detected last month, the European Space Agency ...