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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Before you panic about our impending doom, there's good news - a scientist from the University of Murcia has come up with an equation to spot killer asteroids heading for our planet.

Planet Earth is bidding farewell to a "mini moon," a harmless asteroid named 2024 PT5, which has been trailing Earth for two months and will leave on Monday, drawn away by the sun’s stronger ...

A new equation using gravitational light bending enhances asteroid detection, improving defenses against potential impacts, ...