NASA is closely monitoring these asteroids as they travel through space. This event simply showcases the many intriguing ...

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

An asteroid named 2024 RH45 is set to fly past Earth today at 10:24 pm. Measuring 110 feet, roughly the size of a commercial ...

To qualify as a mini-moon, an asteroid must be relatively close to Earth, within 4.5 million kilometers, and travel at a ...

Asteroids are ripe for mining. Some contain gold or platinum. Others could help make rocket fuel. When they're mini-moons, ...

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.

NASA OSIRIS-REx sample collection event at Asteroid Bennu saw the spacecraft plunge its arm into the surface. Find out how deep it went. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

In the final phase of the Jammu and Kashmir elections, an unprecedented number of women voters have turned out to cast their ...

A mini-moon is an asteroid or space rock that enters Earth’s orbit and acts like a second, much smaller moon for a short time ...

And the M-Argo satellite, with a launch planned for 2025, will study the shape, mass and surface minerals of a ...

Europe is circling back to Dimorphos—the asteroid that NASA had pushed off course. Europe's space agency is launching the ...

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