An asteroid will come close enough to Earth to temporarily enter its orbit at the end of the month, a phenomenon dubbed as ...

Peanuts! Get your peanuts here! The solar system has been passing out peanuts lately in the form of two different oddly shaped asteroids that recently passed by Earth, and both look like over-sized ...

A new video from the European and Japanese mission BepiColombo gives a sneak peak at what Mercury might soon reveal about itself.

An asteroid is headed towards Earth. It's not going to hit us, but it is going to hang out for a couple of months. A recently ...

The mini-moon, an asteroid called 2024 PT5, was spotted by the Asteroid Terrestrial-Impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) on Aug.

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

Asteroid impacts on Earth happen constantly without prior detection, but telescope technology has improved, leading to more notice of these hurdling space rocks. According to NASA, 2024 RWI was ...

“We know that this feature was created by an asteroid impact about 4 billion years ago, but we were unsure how big this impact was and what effect it had on the moon.” Hirata is the author of ...

LUZON ISLAND, Philippines – A massive fireball illuminated the sky over the northern Philippines Wednesday but, unlike during previous encounters with meteorites, the event was widely expected ...

is only the ninth to have been spotted before its impact. Asteroids around this size hurtle toward Earth about every two weeks without posing any danger. The asteroid was discovered through the ...

Kimi No Na Wa vibes.” Some Filipinos were treated to a dazzling display of the entrance of a roughly one-meter asteroid into ...

The observer will first move around the small asteroid to be targeted, for the purposes of detection, before guiding the impactor from afar to strike it. After the kinetic impact, the observer ...