2025-PN7 is around 62 feet (19 meters) wide, and it’s between 2.8 million miles and 37.2 million miles away from Earth. It ...

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.

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 ...

The changing angle between the moon, the Earth, and the background sun is responsible for the shape or phase that we see. The best way to explain the moon’s phases is to look at the different ...

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.

Earth will get itself another moon this month, but only briefly. The "mini-moon" in the form of asteroid 2024 PT5 will stick around for just two months.