Only a little more than one week since its initial sighting, a bus-sized asteroid will be making its closest approach to ...

The model also suggests that the newly-formed moon started off very close to Earth, but then drifted away–to nearly 15 times its initial distance. As it did so, the sun began to exert a more ...

An asteroid with the potential to cause significant damage if it hit a populated area is on course to pass between the orbits of Earth and the moon.

The near-Earth asteroid Kamo'oalewa, which orbits alongside our planet as a 'minimoon,' may have originated from Giordano Bruno crater on the far side of the moon, new research suggests.

This particular mini-moon is part of the Arjuna asteroid belt, a collection of space rocks that orbits the sun at an average distance of 93 million miles. 2024 PT5 came close enough to earth, at a ...