Asteroids are ripe for mining. Some contain gold or platinum. Others could help make rocket fuel. When they're mini-moons, ...

A small asteroid will join Earth's orbit around the sun for two months beginning Sunday, becoming a 'mini-moon.' ...

But asteroids aren't inherently menacing. They're just ancient objects, formed early in our solar system's history, that ...

Earth has got a new mini-moon for the next couple of days and it has fascinated people across social media. Albeit, it might ...

The Deep Space Network’s Goldstone Solar System Radar near Barstow, California, captured a series of radar images of the near ...

Eager to not meet a similar fate, the National Academy of Sciences has called for planetary defense to be a national priority ...

PT5 "mini-moon" asteroid will soon be in Earth's orbit. Here's everything you need to know about this celestial event.

NASA OSIRIS-REx sample collection event at Asteroid Bennu saw the spacecraft plunge its arm into the surface. Find out how ...

Earth has temporarily gained a second moon, an asteroid named 2024 PT5, which was captured in its orbit on September 29, 2024 ...

A new study sheds light on the birthplace of asteroid Ryugu, which is now believed to have formed near Jupiter.

Ceres, the largest asteroid in our solar system, may hold a substantial amount of water ice beneath its surface, like an ...

The mini moon is actually an asteroid about the size of a school bus at 33 feet (10 meters). When it whizzes by Earth on ...