The Earth is getting a second 'mini-moon' later this month, but it'll only last from Sept. 29 to Nov. 25, researchers say.

Though the mini-moon will only be in Earth’s orbit for about two months, it’ll stay close to the planet for a few months, ...

When approaching Earth, asteroids tend to do one of two things: Most of the time, they miss. Sometimes, they hit, leaving a ...

At times during the past half-billion years, carbon dioxide warmed our planet more than previously thought, according to a ...

But the universe is throwing things for a loop by introducing a “second moon” for the next two months. In reality, it’s ...

Earth and Saturn might be a lot more similar than previously thought. In a new study, a team of researchers suggests that 466 ...

“Over millions of years, material from this ring gradually fell to Earth, creating the spike in meteorite impacts observed in ...

Researchers have found evidence suggesting that our planet may have once had a ring system around 466 million years ago.

A weird number of craters are located close to the equator, and the odds that this is random are incredibly low, researchers ...

Imagine Earth covered in thick sheets of ice. And sea levels so low you could walk to a different continent. This is what our planet would look like during an ice age. There have been five of them in ...

"Asteroids that fail to escape Earth's gravity and end up orbiting the planet for a time are referred to as mini-moons," The ...