Robin George Andrews, author of "How to Kill an Asteroid," joins The Excerpt to discuss how scientists are working to ...

Earth is about to gain a second moon! A "mini-moon" named 2024 PT5 is a small asteroid that will temporarily orbit our planet for about two months without the risk of collision. According to a ...

This story was updated to add new information. The Earth will soon have a second mini-moon, although it will be a brief visit. Scientists wrote about the mini-moon and its anticipated orbit around ...

Venus shines bright after sunset, the giant planets rise before midnight, and Mars shines before dawn. Plus, catch Comet ...

Earth is about to gain a temporary companion in space – a mini-moon known as 2024 PT5. This near-Earth asteroid NEA) is expected to enter Earth's orbit on 29 September 2024 and remain in orbit ...

An annular solar eclipse will occur on October 2, 2024, known as the "Ring of Fire." Visible from parts of the Pacific and ...

Researchers have found evidence suggesting that Earth may have had a ring system, which formed ... [+] around 466 million years ago. Scientists have found evidence that Earth may have once had a ...

Diagram of Earth's structure showing inner core ... and observing signals generated by earthquakes within the first hour, the ANU scientists analyzed the similarities between wave-forms many ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched at 4:52 a.m. EDT from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, lifting the company's first five BlueBird communications satellites into low-Earth orbit for future testing.

Earth will get a second moon for about two months this year when a small asteroid begins to orbit our planet. The asteroid was discovered in August and is set to become a mini-moon, revolving ...

This period, which occurred near the end of the Ordovician, is recognized as one of the coldest in the last 500 million years of Earth's history. "The idea that a ring system could have influenced ...