For a brief moment, Earth has been graced by a second moon—asteroid 2024 PT5—a celestial visitor that won’t be staying long.

HOPES of finding traces of alien life in the universe have been scuppered yet again. And this time on asteroid Ryugu, a space ...

The "mini-moon" asteroid originates from the Arjuna asteroid belt, a secondary asteroid belt made of space rocks that follow an orbit around the sun that's very similar to Earth's orbit ...

Before you panic about our impending doom, there's good news - a scientist from the University of Murcia has come up with an ...

29 from the Arjuna asteroid belt, which follows a similar orbital path around the sun as the Earth. Now, as the asteroid is set to depart from view, evidence is suggesting it was visiting its ...

Identifying asteroids on a potential collision course with Earth could be made easier thanks to an advancement in how to ...

"The configuration that we end up with within the solar system is definitely not something that is indeed common," Chen told ...

The majority of asteroids are located in the main asteroid belt, which circles the Sun between Mars and Jupiter. There are billions upon billions of asteroids in the roughly 92 million-mile-thick ...

It orbits near the inner edge of the asteroid belt. The Galileo spacecraft had been travelling through the asteroid belt for about two months before it reached Gaspra. Galileo was 990 miles away ...

NASA plans to probe a unique asteroid 2.2 billion miles away in order to learn more about the cores of planets, but it could ...

Astronomers at the Complutense University of Madrid first spotted this intriguing event using a powerful telescope in ...

A mini moon that will bid farewell to Earth soon may in fact be a small hunk of the big moon — the one that has loomed far ...