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

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 ...

Researchers say there’s a 1.3 percent chance that the space rock 2024 YR4 could strike our planet — but not until December ...

The car, launched in 2018 on a SpaceX rocket’s upper stage, is one of many human-made objects in deep space that could ...

Ever since Isaac Newton famously talked about gravity, its dominance as a force in our solar system has been well known. It's ...

There is a website that might tell you how you’re going to die. It’s constantly updated with various potential causes of your ...

For a few months, Earth had a second moon — a tiny asteroid that may have been a piece of our own Moon ...

Heads up, everybody. A couple of asteroids approximately the size of a school bus are set to make close approach with Earth ...

YR4 has a 1-in-83 chance of striking Earth in December of 2032 as it continues to move in its orbit around 27 million miles ...

NASA has issued an alert about two asteroids, 2025 BY1 and 2025 BS2, that are set to make close approaches to Earth on ...

Hey, guess what? Two asteroids, each about as big as a school bus, are zooming past Earth this Tuesday. They’re going super fast—over 25,000 miles per hour.

Kareta and members of his team at Lowell Observatory, who study near-Earth asteroids on close orbits, were already observing the object before anyone dubbed it a potential mini-moon. To ensure ...