A chunk of space rock that visited near Earth's orbit last year was widely called a "mini-moon," a nickname that was more ...

Asteroid 2024 PT5 was discovered by Nasa's Asteroid Terrestrial-Impact Last Alert System (ATLAS). Scientists believe that the ...

Identified by astronomers in August 2024 near Earth, a small space rock is likely a fragment of the moon that broke off ...

Material retrieved from the asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft shows that all the basic building blocks of life ...

An asteroid that orbited near Earth for a few months as a mini-moon may be a chunk of the moon that was blasted off by an impact thousands of years ago.

New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair of grand canyons ...

The wannabe asteroid, announced on Jan. 2 as 2018 CN41, is actually a Tesla Roadster launched into space years ago by SpaceX ...

In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-meter-wide asteroid 320 ...

PT5, a near-Earth object discovered last year, has captivated scientists with its potential lunar origins. Likely ejected ...

The possibility of the asteroid 2024 YR4 impacting our planet might not be ruled out until 2028, raising the prospect we’ll need to prepare for the worst ...

The "mini-moon ... new study. The small rock captured the world's attention when it came close enough to Earth between September and November to be classified as a near-Earth object. While the ...