A bus-size asteroid is on course to skim past our planet, a reminder that Earth moves through a shooting gallery of rocks and ...

The moon will soon have a companion in Earth's orbit for a limited time. An Arjuna asteroid will become a "mini-moon" event for nearly two months starting Sept. 29, according to a study published in ...

Asteroid 2024 DW flew about 139,000 miles (224,000 km) away from Earth. The space rock was estimated to be about 43 feet wide ...

The first flight mission for planetary defense, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to validate a method to ...

Earth will have an extra moon for a couple of weeks this fall, and it may return for a second round in a few decades. A 33-foot asteroid named 2024 PT5 is expected to be pulled into orbit around the ...

A small asteroid is due to enter Earth’s orbit later this month and continue going around our planet until late November, according to a published study. The asteroid known as 2024 PT 5, which is ...

An asteroid twice the size of a giraffe is due to pass closer to our planet than the moon today. The asteroid, named 2024 XH, is roughly 39 feet in diameter according to NASA's Jet Propulsion ...

That's no moon, it's an asteroid. Earth is set to have a visitor in its orbit in the form of a "mini-moon" also known as asteroid 2024 PT5 over the next couple of months. The asteroid is set to take a ...

On the night of July 7, 2022, the Lowell Discovery Telescope near Flagstaff, Arizona captured this sequence in which the asteroid Didymos, located near the center of the screen, moves across the night ...

Dutch firm ISISPACE has manufactured more than 600 cereal-box sized ‘CubeSat’ satellites, plus nearly 200 deployment systems used to release them into orbit. Of all of these, the pair of Deep Space ...