Last year in August, the number of moons orbiting Earth temporarily doubled, admittedly from the low starting point of "one", ...

Vesta has a number of characteristics working in its favor when it comes to its visibility in the night sky. For one, it ...

NASA is also tracking two other asteroids near Earth today, including a larger bus-sized one called "2025 HR1" that's ...

Witness the potential scale of destruction and long-term consequences of an asteroid impact on Earth. A boy and his father ...

JX8 is moving towards Earth and is classified as potentially hazardous. Should we be worried? With an estimated diameter ...

NASA is tracking a house-sized asteroid making its way toward Earth today, May 2, 2025, with an alarming speed of 42,300 ...

As the asteroid lines up for a planetary flyby in 2029, space agencies are coordinating to conduct some groundbreaking ...

The dinosaurs were not in decline before the asteroid hit, a new study finds. Instead, poor fossilization conditions and ...

The asteroid, spanning around 49 to 111 feet in diameter, is hurtling through space at some 42,300 miles per hour.

They’ve concluded that the Earth was built in the same way that you would build a big snowball to make a snowman. The mass that would become our home rolled through planetary debris – rocks floating ...

Planetary scientists research the complex asteroid Vesta which may possess the same fundamental architecture as Earth such as ...